Last
Quarter ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 54% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 54% and getting smaller. The 21 days old Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 26 April 2019 at 22:18 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 is entering ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1780"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1780" and ∠1907".
Flower Moon after 22 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2019 after 22 days on 18 May 2019 at 21:11.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 4 May 2019 at 22:45
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 12 May 2019 at 01:12
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 18 May 2019 at 21:11
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 26 May 2019 at 16:33
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 238 / 1191
The Moon is 21 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 238 of Meeus index or 1191 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.58 days
Length of current 238 lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 55 minutes. It is 2 hours and 39 minutes longer than next lunation 239 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 11 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 52 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠228.7°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠228.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠263°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before apogee
9 days after point of perigee on 16 April 2019 at 22:02 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 2 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 28 April 2019 at 18:20 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 402 690 km
Moon is 402 690 km (250 220 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 2 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 577 km (251 392 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after its descending node on 25 April 2019 at 15:02 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 13 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 9 May 2019 at 18:50 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
13 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day after previous South standstill on 24 April 2019 at 21:22 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-22.125°. Next 12 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠22.243° in the next northern standstill on 9 May 2019 at 05:46 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 8 days
After 8 days on 4 May 2019 at 22:45 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.