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

Last Quarter in Scorpio

Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 56% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 days old.

* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 5 February 2078 at 03:00 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 ♏ Scorpio

Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.

Snow Moon after 22 days

Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2078 after 22 days on 26 February 2078 at 17:50.

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 ∠1772"

Lunar disc appears visually 9.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1772" and ∠1946".

Lunation 965 / 1918

The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 965 of Meeus index or 1918 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.53 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 45 minutes and it is 2 hours and 6 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 1 minute longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 7 hours and 2 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠294.9°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠294.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠321.6°.

Moon after apogee

1 day since point of apogee on 3 February 2078 at 05:07 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 14 February 2078 at 23:02 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 404 387 km

The Moon is 404 387 km (251 274 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 913 km (226 125 mi).

Moon before descending node

12 days after ascending node on 22 January 2078 at 17:10 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 5 February 2078 at 19:13 in ♏ Scorpio.

Moon before southern standstill

9 days since the last northern standstill on 25 January 2078 at 19:02 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.499° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.587° at the point of next southern standstill on 9 February 2078 at 06:26 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

12 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 12 February 2078 at 13:59 in ♒ Aquarius 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