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
Length of current 412 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 next lunation 413 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 54 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 15 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠25.1°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠25.1°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠46°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before perigee
11 days after point of apogee on 9 May 2033 at 16:25 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 4 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 25 May 2033 at 13:01 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 366 723 km
Moon is 366 723 km (227 871 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 4 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 365 415 km (227 058 mi).
Moon before descending node
9 days after its ascending node on 11 May 2033 at 17:56 in ♎ Libra, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 3 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 25 May 2033 at 05:37 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
9 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
4 days after previous South standstill on 16 May 2033 at 20:25 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-18.668°. Next 8 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠18.697° in the next northern standstill on 29 May 2033 at 17:10 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 6 days
After 6 days on 28 May 2033 at 11:36 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.