Last
Quarter* ♑ Capricorn
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 ♐ Sagittarius.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 24 March 2014 at 01:46 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 ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing about ∠25° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1952"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1952" and ∠1925".
Pink Moon after 22 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2014 after 22 days on 15 April 2014 at 07:42.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 24 March 2014 at 01:46
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 30 March 2014 at 18:45
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 7 April 2014 at 08:31
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 15 April 2014 at 07:42
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 175 / 1128
The Moon is 21 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 175 of Meeus index or 1128 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.45 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 45 minutes. It is 45 minutes shorter 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 1 hour and 59 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 10 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠25.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠25.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠46.9°.
Moon before apogee
11 days after point of apogee on 11 March 2014 at 19:46 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 27 March 2014 at 18:30 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 367 141 km
The Moon is 367 141 km (228 131 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 706 km (227 239 mi).
Moon after ascending node
4 days after ascending node on 19 March 2014 at 06:30 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 1 April 2014 at 02:30 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
4 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 07:28 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-18.997°. Over the next 12 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠18.957° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 5 April 2014 at 07:12.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 30 March 2014 at 18:45 in ♈ Aries 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.
