Last
Quarter ♍ Virgo
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 ♌ Leo.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 24 November 2032 at 22:48 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 ♌ Leo
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1771"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1771" and ∠1944".
Cold Moon after 22 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2032 after 22 days on 16 December 2032 at 20:49.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 2 December 2032 at 20:53
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 9 December 2032 at 19:09
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 16 December 2032 at 20:49
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 24 December 2032 at 20:39
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 406 / 1359
The Moon is 21 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 406 of Meeus index or 1359 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.63 days
Length of current 406 lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 8 minutes. It is 1 hour and 44 minutes longer than next lunation 407 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 24 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 39 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠248.6°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠248.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠286.1°. 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
10 days after point of perigee on 13 November 2032 at 15:20 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next apogee on 25 November 2032 at 14:16 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 404 807 km
Moon is 404 807 km (251 535 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next day until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 371 km (251 264 mi).
Moon before ascending node
8 days after its descending node on 15 November 2032 at 12:07 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 5 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 29 November 2032 at 16:30 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
22 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
5 days after previous North standstill on 19 November 2032 at 06:10 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠19.095°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-19.128° in the next southern standstill on 3 December 2032 at 17:02 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 8 days
After 8 days on 2 December 2032 at 20:53 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.