Waning
Crescent ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 53% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 53% and getting smaller. The 21 days old Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 21 May 2033 at 18:29 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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1955"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1955" and ∠1895".
Strawberry Moon after 22 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2033 after 22 days on 12 June 2033 at 23:19.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 28 May 2033 at 11:36
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 4 June 2033 at 23:39
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 12 June 2033 at 23:19
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 19 June 2033 at 23:29
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 412 / 1365
The Moon is 21 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 412 of Meeus index or 1365 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.37 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 50 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2033. It is 40 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 54 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 15 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠25.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠25.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠46°.
Moon before apogee
11 days after point of apogee on 9 May 2033 at 16:25 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 25 May 2033 at 13:01 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 366 723 km
The Moon is 366 723 km (227 871 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 415 km (227 058 mi).
Moon before descending node
9 days after ascending node on 11 May 2033 at 17:56 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 25 May 2033 at 05:37 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
9 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
4 days since the previous standstill on 16 May 2033 at 20:25 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.668°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.697° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 May 2033 at 17:10 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 28 May 2033 at 11:36 in ♊ Gemini 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.
