Waxing
Crescent ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 17% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 17% and growing larger. The 4 days young Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
Moon phases for next 7 days
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 20 December 2006 at 14:01.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing about ∠22° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1942"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1942" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 10 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2007 after 10 days on 3 January 2007 at 13:57.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- 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
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 19 January 2007 at 04:01
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 86 / 1039
The Moon is 4 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 86 of Meeus index or 1039 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.58 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 1 minute. It is 1 hour and 46 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 1 hour and 16 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 47 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠276.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠276.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠308.6°.
Moon before apogee
10 days after point of apogee on 13 December 2006 at 18:55 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 28 December 2006 at 01:48 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 369 106 km
The Moon is 369 106 km (229 352 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 370 321 km (230 107 mi).
Moon before ascending node
11 days after descending node on 12 December 2006 at 15:19 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 26 December 2006 at 10:36 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
25 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
3 days since the previous standstill on 20 December 2006 at 13:40 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.378°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.396° at the point of next northern standstill on 2 January 2007 at 11:57 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 3 January 2007 at 13:57 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
