Waning
Crescent ♎ Libra
Moon phase on 5 December 2061 Monday is Waning Crescent, 23 days old Moon is in Libra.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinWaning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 34% and getting smaller. The 23 days old Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 3 December 2061 at 22:12.
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 first ∠3° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1853" and ∠1947".
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2061 after 21 days on 26 December 2061 at 16:53.
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 23 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 765 of Meeus index or 1718 from Brown series.
Length of current 765 lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 53 minutes. It is 27 minutes shorter than next lunation 766 length.
Length of current synodic month is 6 hours and 9 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 54 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠151.2°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠176.8°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
7 days after point of perigee on 27 November 2061 at 19:57 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 6 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 12 December 2061 at 07:27 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Moon is 386 840 km (240 371 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 6 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 709 km (252 717 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♎ Libra at 23:41 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from North to South. Moon will follow the southern part of its orbit for the next 15 days to meet ascending node on 20 December 2061 at 15:02 in ♈ Aries.
12 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is moving from the middle to the last part of it.
6 days after previous North standstill on 28 November 2061 at 23:49 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.441°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.385° in the next southern standstill on 12 December 2061 at 21:05 in ♐ Sagittarius.
After 6 days on 11 December 2061 at 22:32 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.