Waning
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
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 ♐ Sagittarius.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 11 March 2026 at 09:39 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 ∠1770"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1931".
Pink Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2026 after 21 days on 2 April 2026 at 02:12.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 19 March 2026 at 01:23
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 25 March 2026 at 19:18
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 2 April 2026 at 02:12
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 10 April 2026 at 04:52
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 323 / 1276
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 323 of Meeus index or 1276 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.56 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 22 minutes. It is 2 hours and 54 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 38 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 25 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠276.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠276.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠307.9°.
Moon after apogee
1 day after point of apogee on 10 March 2026 at 13:43 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 22 March 2026 at 11:40 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 404 952 km
The Moon is 404 952 km (251 626 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 858 km (227 955 mi).
Moon before ascending node
8 days after descending node on 3 March 2026 at 04:35 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 17 March 2026 at 15:22 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
21 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 21:12 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.416°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2026. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.371° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 25 March 2026 at 04:46.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 19 March 2026 at 01:23 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.
