Waning Crescent on

24 March 2006
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Moon phase on 24 March 2006 Friday is Waning

Crescent, 24 days old Moon is in Capricorn.

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Moon phase for 24 March

2006 Friday 12:00 UTC

2006 | March 2006

Waning Crescent phase

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

Waning Crescent 31%

illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on 24 March
2006, Friday. Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of
the Moon surface is 31% and getting smaller. The 24
days old Moon is in Capricorn.

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Moon phases for next 7 days

Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri

25 26 27 28 29* 30 31

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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 22 March 2006 at 19:10.

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 Capricorn
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of Capricorn tropical
zodiac sector and will enter Aquarius later.

Apparent angular diameter

∠ 1948"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.2% wider than solar
disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are
∠1948" and ∠1924".

Pink Moon after 20 days

Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2006 after
20 days on 13 April 2006 at 16:40.

Upcoming main Moon phases

New Moon in Aries after 4 days on

29 March 2006 at 10:15

First Quarter in Cancer after 12 days on

5 April 2006 at 12:01

Full Moon in Libra after 20 days on

13 April 2006 at 16:40

Last Quarter in Aquarius after 27 days on

21 April 2006 at 03:28

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 76 / 1029
The Moon is 24 days old. Earth's natural satellite is
moving from the second to the final part of current
synodic month. This is lunation 76 of Meeus index or
1029 from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.41

days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and
44 minutes. It is 15 minutes longer 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
shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is
3 hours and 9 minutes longer compared to 21st
century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit position on 24

March 2006 Friday
12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠ 2.9°

At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly
is ∠2.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the
true anomaly is going to be ∠19°.

Moon before apogee

11 days after point of apogee on 13 March 2006 at
01:44 in Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow,
while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will
keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the
Moon reaches the point of next perigee on
28 March 2006 at 07:13 in Pisces.

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Distance to Moon 367 963 km

The Moon is 367 963 km (228 642 mi) away from
Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the
point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to
be 359 170 km (223 178 mi).

Moon before ascending node

8 days after descending node on 15 March 2006 at
19:52 in Virgo. The Moon is located south of the
ecliptic over the following 4 days, until the lunar orbit
crosses from South to North in ascending node on
29 March 2006 at 03:31 in Aries.

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Draconic month
22 days since the beginning of current draconic
month in Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the
second to the final part of the cycle.

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Moon after southern standstill

1 day since the previous standstill on 22 March 2006
at 16:53 in Sagittarius when the Moon has
reached South declination of ∠-28.725°, the lunar
orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to
face maximum declination of ∠28.715° at the point of
next northern standstill on 4 April 2006 at 07:35 in
Cancer.

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Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 29 March 2006 at 10:15 in Aries 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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