Waning
Crescent ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 7% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 7% and getting smaller. The 27 days old Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 14 October 2006 at 00:25.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
Moon in ♍ Virgo
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♎ Libra later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1927".
Beaver Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2006 after 17 days on 5 November 2006 at 12:58.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- 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
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 12 November 2006 at 17:45
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 27 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 83 of Meeus index or 1036 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.73 days
The length of the 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 the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 45 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 18 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠182.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠182.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠207.1°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 09:35. It is 12 days after previous perigee on 6 October 2006 at 14:07 in ♓ Pisces. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 15 days, until point of next perigee on 3 November 2006 at 23:50 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 406 075 km
This apogee Moon is 406 075 km (252 323 mi) away from Earth. It is 667 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 634 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♍ Virgo at 09:34 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 13 days later on 2 November 2006 at 06:55 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
7 days since the previous standstill on 12 October 2006 at 08:52 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.678°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.595° at the point of next southern standstill on 27 October 2006 at 02:05 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 22 October 2006 at 05:14 in ♎ Libra the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
