Last
Quarter* ♈ Aries
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 ♈ Aries.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 19 July 2014 at 02:08 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 ♈ Aries
Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1917"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1917" and ∠1888".
Sturgeon Moon after 23 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2014 after 23 days on 10 August 2014 at 18:09.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 19 July 2014 at 02:08
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 26 July 2014 at 22:42
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 4 August 2014 at 00:50
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 10 August 2014 at 18:09
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 179 / 1132
The Moon is 21 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 179 of Meeus index or 1132 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.61 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 33 minutes. It is 58 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 49 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 14 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠144.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠144.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠169.2°.
Moon after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 13 July 2014 at 08:27 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 28 July 2014 at 03:27 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 373 895 km
The Moon is 373 895 km (232 328 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 570 km (252 631 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♈ Aries at 21:21 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 14 days later on 2 August 2014 at 11:26 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
12 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
7 days since the previous standstill on 10 July 2014 at 17:29 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.982°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.934° at the point of next northern standstill on 23 July 2014 at 15:36 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 days on 26 July 2014 at 22:42 in ♋ Cancer 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.
