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

Last Quarter in Libra

Last Quarter on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 52% and getting smaller. Lunar cycle is 22 days old.

* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 8 January 2067 at 17:01 UTC.

Moonrise and moonset

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

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♎ Libra

Moon is passing about ∠16° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.

Wolf Moon after 21 days

Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2067 after 21 days on 30 January 2067 at 10:29.

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 ∠1862"

Lunar disc appears visually 4.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1862" and ∠1951".

Lunation 828 / 1781

The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 828 of Meeus index or 1781 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.46 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 59 minutes and it is 19 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2067. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit 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 1 hour and 45 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 24 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠346.7°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠346.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠2.4°.

Moon before perigee

6 days since point of apogee on 1 January 2067 at 14:49 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 January 2067 at 07:56 in ♑ Capricorn.

Distance to Moon 384 971 km

The Moon is 384 971 km (239 210 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 756 km (221 678 mi).

Moon before ascending node

8 days after descending node on 30 December 2066 at 17:42 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 13 January 2067 at 18:46 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Moon before southern standstill

9 days since the last northern standstill on 29 December 2066 at 18:32 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.938° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.918° at the point of next southern standstill on 13 January 2067 at 00:58 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

22 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 6 days

In 6 days on 15 January 2067 at 11:17 in ♑ Capricorn 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