Last
Quarter* ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 56% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 56% and getting smaller. The 21 days old Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 28 May 2008 at 02:57 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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1859"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1859" and ∠1893".
Strawberry Moon after 22 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2008 after 22 days on 18 June 2008 at 17:30.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 28 May 2008 at 02:57
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 3 June 2008 at 19:23
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 10 June 2008 at 15:04
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 18 June 2008 at 17:30
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 103 / 1056
The Moon is 21 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 103 of Meeus index or 1056 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.29 days
Length of current 103 lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 4 minutes. It is 8 minutes longer than next lunation 104 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 40 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 29 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠349.4°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠349.4°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠4.4°. 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 20 May 2008 at 14:27 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 3 June 2008 at 13:08 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 385 630 km
Moon is 385 630 km (239 619 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 7 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 357 251 km (221 985 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after its ascending node on 26 May 2008 at 21:45 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 11 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 8 June 2008 at 09:15 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
1 day after beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
5 days after previous South standstill on 22 May 2008 at 04:00 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-27.542°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠27.527° in the next northern standstill on 4 June 2008 at 11:38 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 7 days
After 7 days on 3 June 2008 at 19:23 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.