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

Last Quarter in Pisces

Last Quarter on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 49% and getting smaller. Lunar cycle is 22 days old.

* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 12 June 2088 at 08:30 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 ♓ Pisces

Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.

Buck Moon after 21 days

Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2088 after 21 days on 3 July 2088 at 23:22.

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 ∠1874"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1874" and ∠1889".

Lunation 1093 / 2046

The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1093 of Meeus index or 2046 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.3 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 5 minutes and it is 20 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 5 hours and 39 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 30 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠348.3°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠348.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠3.5°.

Moon before perigee

7 days since point of apogee on 5 June 2088 at 01:04 in ♐ Sagittarius 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 18 June 2088 at 20:56 in ♊ Gemini.

Distance to Moon 382 560 km

The Moon is 382 560 km (237 712 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 292 km (222 011 mi).

Moon before descending node

11 days after ascending node on 1 June 2088 at 03:13 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 15 June 2088 at 12:42 in ♉ Taurus.

Moon before northern standstill

7 days since the last southern standstill on 4 June 2088 at 21:46 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.441° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.431° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 June 2088 at 14:44 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

11 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 6 days

In 6 days on 19 June 2088 at 01:54 in ♊ Gemini 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