Waning
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase on 27 July 2011 Wednesday is Waning Crescent, 26 days old Moon is in Gemini.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinWaning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 12% and getting smaller. The 26 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 23 July 2011 at 05:02.
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 passing about ∠23° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1834" and ∠1889".
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2011 after 17 days on 13 August 2011 at 18:58.
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.
The Moon is 26 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 142 of Meeus index or 1095 from Brown series.
Length of current 142 lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 46 minutes. It is 1 hour and 22 minutes longer than next lunation 143 length.
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 58 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 11 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
This lunation true anomaly is ∠283.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠312.1°. 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°).
5 days after point of apogee on 21 July 2011 at 22:46 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 6 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 2 August 2011 at 20:59 in ♍ Virgo.
Moon is 390 793 km (242 828 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 6 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 365 756 km (227 270 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♊ Gemini at 12:03 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from North to South. Moon will follow the southern part of its orbit for the next 12 days to meet ascending node on 9 August 2011 at 06:35 in ♐ Sagittarius.
14 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
At 03:02 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠23.333°. Next 12 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-23.270° in its southern standstill point on 8 August 2011 at 23:15 in ♐ Sagittarius.
After 3 days on 30 July 2011 at 18:40 in ♌ Leo, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.