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Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 1% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 1% and getting smaller. The 28 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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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 7 July 2007 at 16:54.
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 ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1909"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1909" and ∠1888".
Buck Moon after 16 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2007 after 16 days on 30 July 2007 at 00:48.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 14 July 2007 at 12:04
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 22 July 2007 at 06:29
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 30 July 2007 at 00:48
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 5 August 2007 at 21:20
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunation 92 / 1045
The Moon is 28 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 92 of Meeus index or 1045 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.37 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 51 minutes. It is 2 hours and 8 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 53 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 16 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠38.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠38.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠64.2°.
Moon after perigee
3 days after point of perigee on 9 July 2007 at 21:38 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 22 July 2007 at 08:43 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 375 549 km
The Moon is 375 549 km (233 355 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 152 km (251 128 mi).
Moon before descending node
8 days after ascending node on 5 July 2007 at 01:39 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 18 July 2007 at 00:18 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
8 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 12 July 2007 at 16:38 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.251°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.300° at the point of next southern standstill on 26 July 2007 at 23:22 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 1 day
In 1 day on 14 July 2007 at 12:04 in ♋ Cancer 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.
