Waning
Crescent ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 47% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 47% and getting smaller. The 22 days old Moon is in ♌ Leo.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 17 November 2003 at 04:15 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 ♌ Leo
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1867"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1867" and ∠1941".
Cold Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2003 after 21 days on 8 December 2003 at 20:37.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 23 November 2003 at 22:59
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 30 November 2003 at 17:16
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 8 December 2003 at 20:37
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 16 December 2003 at 17:42
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.
Lunation 47 / 1000
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 47 of Meeus index or 1000 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.42 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 9 minutes. It is 35 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 35 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 34 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠344°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠344°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠359.8°.
Moon before apogee
6 days after point of apogee on 10 November 2003 at 12:05 in ♊ Gemini. 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 23 November 2003 at 23:14 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 384 012 km
The Moon is 384 012 km (238 614 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 812 km (221 713 mi).
Moon before descending node
8 days after ascending node on 9 November 2003 at 09:48 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 23 November 2003 at 06:02 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
8 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
4 days since the previous standstill on 13 November 2003 at 10:16 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.105°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.092° at the point of next southern standstill on 26 November 2003 at 09:16 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 23 November 2003 at 22:59 in ♏ Scorpio 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.
