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Waxing Crescent On 15 April 2005 Friday

The document summarizes the moon phase on April 15, 2005. On this date, the moon phase is a Waxing Crescent, which is 40% illuminated and growing larger. The 6-day old moon is located in the constellation of Cancer. The next main moon phases will be the First Quarter in Cancer after 1 day and the Full Moon in Scorpio after 8 days. Additional details provided include the moonrise and moonset times, lunar orbit position, distance from Earth, and upcoming lunar events through the month.

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Waxing Crescent On 15 April 2005 Friday

The document summarizes the moon phase on April 15, 2005. On this date, the moon phase is a Waxing Crescent, which is 40% illuminated and growing larger. The 6-day old moon is located in the constellation of Cancer. The next main moon phases will be the First Quarter in Cancer after 1 day and the Full Moon in Scorpio after 8 days. Additional details provided include the moonrise and moonset times, lunar orbit position, distance from Earth, and upcoming lunar events through the month.

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Moon phase on 15 April 2005 Friday is Waxing


Crescent, 6 days young Moon is in Cancer.

Moon phase for 15 April 2005


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Waxing Crescent phase


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

Waxing Crescent 40% illuminated


Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on 15 April 2005,
Friday. Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon
surface is 40% and growing larger. The 6 days young Moon
is in Cancer.

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Moon phase and lunation


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6 days after New Moon


Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 6 days
on 8 April 2005 at 20:32.

Moonrise and moonset


Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is
visible toward the southwest in early evening.

Moon in Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠13° of Cancer tropical zodiac
sector.

Apparent angular diameter ∠ 1771"


Lunar disc appears visually 7.6% narrower than solar disc.
Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1771" and
∠1912".

Pink Moon after 8 days


Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2005 after 8 days
on 24 April 2005 at 10:06.

Upcoming main Moon phases


First Quarter in Cancer after 1 day on 16 April 2005

at 14:37

Full Moon in Scorpio after 8 days on 24 April 2005 at

10:06

Last Quarter in Aquarius after 15 days on

1 May 2005 at 06:24

New Moon in Taurus after 22 days on 8 May 2005 at

08:45

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 65 / 1018
The Moon is 6 days young. Earth's natural satellite is
moving from the beginning to the first part of current
synodic month. This is lunation 65 of Meeus index or 1018
from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.51 days


The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and
13 minutes. It is 57 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 shorter than mean


The length of the current synodic month is 31 minutes
shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours
and 38 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest
synodic month length.

Lunar orbit position on 15


April 2005 Friday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠ 62.3°


At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is
∠62.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true
anomaly is going to be ∠96.6°.

Moon before perigee


11 days after point of perigee on 4 April 2005 at 11:10 in
Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the
Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this
direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point
of next apogee on 16 April 2005 at 18:41 in Cancer.

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Distance to Moon 404 655 km


The Moon is 404 655 km (251 441 mi) away from Earth and
getting further over the next day until the point apogee
when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 304 km
(251 223 mi).

Moon after ascending node


6 days after ascending node on 9 April 2005 at 02:59 in
Aries. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the
following 8 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to
South in descending node on 23 April 2005 at 13:30 in
Libra.

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Draconic month
6 days since the beginning of current draconic month in
Aries, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the
first part of the cycle.

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Moon after northern standstill


1 day since the previous standstill on 14 April 2005 at 16:38
in Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination
of ∠28.381°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the
next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.359° at
the point of next southern standstill on 28 April 2005 at
15:55 in Sagittarius.

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Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 days on 24 April 2005 at 10:06 in Scorpio the Moon
is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the
Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon 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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