Last
Quarter ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 52% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 52% and getting smaller. The 22 days old Moon is in ♎ Libra.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 3 January 2005 at 17:46 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 ♎ Libra
Moon is passing about ∠10° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1858"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1858" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2005 after 21 days on 25 January 2005 at 10:32.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 10 January 2005 at 12:03
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 17 January 2005 at 06:58
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 25 January 2005 at 10:32
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 2 February 2005 at 07:27
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 61 / 1014
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 61 of Meeus index or 1014 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.44 days
Length of current 61 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 34 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2005. It is 9 minutes longer than next lunation 62 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 10 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 59 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠345.8°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠345.8°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠1.4°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon after apogee
6 days after point of apogee on 27 December 2004 at 19:15 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 6 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 10 January 2005 at 10:07 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 385 721 km
Moon is 385 721 km (239 676 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 6 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 356 572 km (221 564 mi).
Moon before descending node
13 days after its ascending node on 21 December 2004 at 06:51 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 4 January 2005 at 21:52 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
13 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
7 days after previous North standstill on 26 December 2004 at 14:10 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠27.905°. Next 5 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-27.938° in the next southern standstill on 9 January 2005 at 11:17 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 7 days
After 7 days on 10 January 2005 at 12:03 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.