Last Quarter Moon
Last Quarter MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Last Quarter in Leo

Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 55% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 days old.

* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 26 November 2059 at 23:42 UTC.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises at midnight and sets at noon. It is visible to the south in the morning.

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♌ Leo

Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.

Cold Moon after 22 days

Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2059 after 22 days on 19 December 2059 at 02:11.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1783"

Lunar disc appears visually 8.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1783" and ∠1944".

Lunation 740 / 1693

The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 740 of Meeus index or 1693 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.69 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 38 minutes and it is 1 hour and 47 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Lunation length longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 54 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 9 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠225.8°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠225.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠262.2°.

Moon before apogee

9 days since point of perigee on 17 November 2059 at 04:17 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 28 November 2059 at 22:30 in ♍ Virgo.

Distance to Moon 402 016 km

The Moon is 402 016 km (249 801 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 737 km (251 492 mi).

Moon before descending node

7 days after ascending node on 18 November 2059 at 20:56 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 3 December 2059 at 01:20 in ♏ Scorpio.

Moon after northern standstill

4 days since the last northern standstill on 22 November 2059 at 10:36 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.219° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.188° at the point of next southern standstill on 6 December 2059 at 22:40 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

7 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 8 days

In 8 days on 5 December 2059 at 01:49 in ♐ Sagittarius 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.

Lunar calendar

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