Waning
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Waning 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.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 46 minutes. It is 1 hour and 22 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°).
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 58 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 11 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠283.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠312.1°.
5 days after point of apogee on 21 July 2011 at 22:46 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 2 August 2011 at 20:59 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 390 793 km (242 828 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 756 km (227 270 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♊ Gemini at 12:03 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 12 days later on 9 August 2011 at 06:35 in ♐ Sagittarius.
14 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
At 03:02 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠23.333°. Over the next 12 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-23.270° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 8 August 2011 at 23:15.
In 3 days on 30 July 2011 at 18:40 in ♌ Leo 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.