Waning
Crescent ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 42% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 42% and getting smaller. The 23 days old Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 12 December 2006 at 14:32.
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 is entering ♎ Libra
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1949".
Wolf Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2007 after 21 days on 3 January 2007 at 13:57.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 20 December 2006 at 14:01
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 27 December 2006 at 14:48
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 3 January 2007 at 13:57
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 11 January 2007 at 12:45
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 85 / 1038
The Moon is 23 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 85 of Meeus index or 1038 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.65 days
Length of current 85 lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 43 minutes. It is 1 hour and 43 minutes longer than next lunation 86 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 59 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 4 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠238.7°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠238.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠276.5°. 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 in apogee
Moon is reaching point of apogee on this date at 18:55, this is 11 days after last perigee on 2 December 2006 at 00:06 in ♉ Taurus. Lunar orbit is starting to get closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth for 14 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next perigee on 28 December 2006 at 01:48 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 404 418 km
This apogee Moon is 404 418 km (251 294 mi) away from Earth. It is 990 km farther than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 291 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
1 day after its descending node on 12 December 2006 at 15:19 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 12 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 26 December 2006 at 10:36 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
14 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
7 days after previous North standstill on 6 December 2006 at 03:33 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.402°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.378° in the next southern standstill on 20 December 2006 at 13:40 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 7 days
After 7 days on 20 December 2006 at 14:01 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.