Waning
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 45% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 45% and getting smaller. The 22 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 6 March 2021 at 01:30 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 ∠22° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1953"
Lunar disc appears visually 1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1953" and ∠1934".
Worm Moon after 22 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2021 after 22 days on 28 March 2021 at 18:48.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 13 March 2021 at 10:21
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 21 March 2021 at 14:40
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 28 March 2021 at 18:48
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 4 April 2021 at 10:02
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 261 / 1214
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 261 of Meeus index or 1214 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.64 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 15 minutes. It is 55 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 2 hours and 31 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 32 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠87°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠87°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠124.3°.
Moon after perigee
4 days after point of perigee on 2 March 2021 at 05:19 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 18 March 2021 at 05:04 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 366 989 km
The Moon is 366 989 km (228 036 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 253 km (251 813 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 00:56 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 13 days later on 20 March 2021 at 03:31 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 23 February 2021 at 00:12 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.056°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-25.161° at the point of next southern standstill on 7 March 2021 at 20:45 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 13 March 2021 at 10:21 in ♓ Pisces 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.
