Waning
Crescent ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 50% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 50% and getting smaller. The 22 days old Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 1 December 2007 at 12:44 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 ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1830"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1830" and ∠1946".
Cold Moon after 22 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2007 after 22 days on 24 December 2007 at 01:16.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 9 December 2007 at 17:40
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 17 December 2007 at 10:17
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 24 December 2007 at 01:16
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 31 December 2007 at 07:51
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 97 / 1050
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 97 of Meeus index or 1050 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.78 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 37 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2007. It is 40 minutes longer 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 53 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 10 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠183.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠183.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠209.6°.
Moon before perigee
7 days after point of perigee on 24 November 2007 at 00:12 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 6 December 2007 at 16:54 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 391 732 km
The Moon is 391 732 km (243 411 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 235 km (252 423 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 30 November 2007 at 23:09 in ♌ Leo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 14 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 15 December 2007 at 13:15 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
12 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
5 days since the previous standstill on 26 November 2007 at 03:58 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.958°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.906° at the point of next southern standstill on 10 December 2007 at 09:41 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 days on 9 December 2007 at 17:40 in ♐ Sagittarius 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.
