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Quarter ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Gibbous 66% illuminated
Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 66% and getting smaller. The 20 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after Full Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 5 days on 7 October 2006 at 03:13.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
Moon is entering ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1867"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1867" and ∠1923".
Hunter Moon before 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2006 after 24 days on 5 November 2006 at 12:58.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 14 October 2006 at 00:25
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 22 October 2006 at 05:14
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 29 October 2006 at 21:25
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 5 November 2006 at 12:58
Neap tide
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunation 83 / 1036
The Moon is 20 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 83 of Meeus index or 1036 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.73 days
Length of current 83 lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 29 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2006. It is 25 minutes longer than next lunation 84 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 45 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 18 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠182.3°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠182.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠207.1°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 6 October 2006 at 14:07 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 6 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 19 October 2006 at 09:35 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 383 826 km
Moon is 383 826 km (238 498 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 6 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 075 km (252 323 mi).
Moon after ascending node
6 days after its ascending node on 5 October 2006 at 22:11 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 6 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 19 October 2006 at 09:34 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
6 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon in northern standstill
At 08:52 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠28.678°. Next 14 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-28.595° in its southern standstill point on 27 October 2006 at 02:05 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 9 days
After 9 days on 22 October 2006 at 05:14 in ♎ Libra, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.