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Waning Crescent on
22 October 2008
Wednesday

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Moon phase on 22 October 2008 Wednesday is

Waning Crescent, 23 days old Moon is in Leo.

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Moon phase for 22 October

2008 Wednesday 12:00 UTC

2008 | October 2008

Waning Crescent phase

Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization
Studio.

Waning Crescent 39% illuminated

Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on 22 October
2008, Wednesday. Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction
of the Moon surface is 39% and getting smaller. The 23
days old Moon is in Leo.

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Moon phase and lunation

details

1 day after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before
1 day on 21 October 2008 at 11:55.

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 Leo
Moon is passing about ∠12° of Leo tropical zodiac
sector.

Apparent angular diameter ∠ 1935"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.3% wider than solar disc.
Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1935"
and ∠1929".

Beaver Moon after 21 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2008
after 21 days on 13 November 2008 at 06:17.

Upcoming main Moon phases

New Moon in Libra after 6 days on

28 October 2008 at 23:14

First Quarter in Aquarius after 14 days on

6 November 2008 at 04:04

Full Moon in Taurus after 21 days on

13 November 2008 at 06:17

Last Quarter in Leo after 28 days on

19 November 2008 at 21:31

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 108 / 1061

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 108 of Meeus index or
1061 from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.63 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and
2 minutes. It is 2 hours and 39 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and
18 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length.
It is 4 hours and 45 minutes shorter compared to 21st
century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit position on 22

October 2008 Wednesday
12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠ 98.7°

At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is
∠98.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true
anomaly is going to be ∠133.4°.

Moon after perigee

5 days after point of perigee on 17 October 2008 at
06:06 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 10 days, until the Moon
reaches the point of next apogee on 2 November 2008
at 04:55 in Sagittarius.

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Distance to Moon 370 378 km

The Moon is 370 378 km (230 142 mi) away from Earth
and getting further over the next 10 days until the point
apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be
405 723 km (252 105 mi).

Moon in descending node

Moon is in descending node in Leo at 18:00 crossing
the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node
14 days later on 6 November 2008 at 03:34 in
Aquarius.

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Draconic month
12 days since the beginning of current draconic month in
Aquarius, the Moon is navigating from the middle to
the last part of the cycle.

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Moon after northern standstill

3 days since the previous standstill on 19 October 2008
at 00:21 in Cancer when the Moon has reached
North declination of ∠27.270°, the lunar orbit is
extending southward over the next 10 days to face
maximum declination of ∠-27.155° at the point of next
southern standstill on 1 November 2008 at 20:56 in
Sagittarius.

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Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 28 October 2008 at 23:14 in Libra 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.

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fl Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary
Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak,
 www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space

Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio,
 svs.gsfc.nasa.gov

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