Waning
Crescent ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 49% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 49% and getting smaller. The 22 days old Moon is in ♎ Libra.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 13 January 2015 at 09:47 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 ♎ Libra
Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1803"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1803" and ∠1951".
Snow Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2015 after 21 days on 3 February 2015 at 23:09.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 20 January 2015 at 13:14
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 27 January 2015 at 04:48
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 3 February 2015 at 23:09
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 12 February 2015 at 03:50
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 185 / 1138
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 185 of Meeus index or 1138 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.48 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 38 minutes. It is 1 hour and 4 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 6 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 3 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠318°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠318°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠338.3°.
Moon after apogee
3 days after point of apogee on 9 January 2015 at 18:17 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 21 January 2015 at 20:06 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 397 615 km
The Moon is 397 615 km (247 067 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 643 km (223 472 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 12 January 2015 at 15:33 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 25 January 2015 at 10:23 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 3 January 2015 at 17:53 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.650°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.577° at the point of next southern standstill on 18 January 2015 at 06:17 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 20 January 2015 at 13:14 in ♑ Capricorn 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.
