Waning
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 45% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 45% and getting smaller. The 22 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 25 March 2003 at 01:51 UTC.
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Moon phase and lunation details
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises at midnight and sets at noon. It is visible to the south in the morning.
Moon in ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing about ∠10° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1914"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1914" and ∠1924".
Pink Moon after 22 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2003 after 22 days on 16 April 2003 at 19:36.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 1 April 2003 at 19:19
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 9 April 2003 at 23:40
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 16 April 2003 at 19:36
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 23 April 2003 at 12:18
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunation 39 / 992
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 39 of Meeus index or 992 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.7 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 44 minutes. It is 12 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 3 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠127.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠127.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠157.7°.
Moon after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 19 March 2003 at 18:57 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 4 April 2003 at 04:31 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 374 410 km
The Moon is 374 410 km (232 648 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 211 km (252 408 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after descending node on 22 March 2003 at 17:37 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 5 April 2003 at 21:41 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
15 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 11:01 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-26.258°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠26.383° at the point of next standstill in ♋ Cancer on 9 April 2003 at 03:25.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 1 April 2003 at 19:19 in ♈ Aries 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.
