Waning
Crescent ♓ Pisces
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 ♒ Aquarius.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 10 May 2007 at 04:27 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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1923"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1923" and ∠1900".
Strawberry Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2007 after 21 days on 1 June 2007 at 01:04.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 16 May 2007 at 19:27
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 23 May 2007 at 21:03
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 1 June 2007 at 01:04
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 8 June 2007 at 11:43
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 90 / 1043
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 90 of Meeus index or 1043 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.33 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 51 minutes. It is 5 minutes longer 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 53 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 16 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠19.8°.
Moon before apogee
10 days after point of apogee on 30 April 2007 at 10:57 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 May 2007 at 15:10 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 372 777 km
The Moon is 372 777 km (231 633 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 393 km (223 316 mi).
Moon before ascending node
12 days after descending node on 27 April 2007 at 15:27 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 11 May 2007 at 23:08 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
25 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
4 days since the previous standstill on 6 May 2007 at 04:22 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.341°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.287° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 May 2007 at 23:04 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 16 May 2007 at 19:27 in ♉ Taurus 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.
