Waning
Crescent ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 44% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 44% and getting smaller. The 22 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 11 April 2034 at 22:45 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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1854"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1854" and ∠1914".
Flower Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2034 after 21 days on 3 May 2034 at 12:16.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 18 April 2034 at 19:26
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 25 April 2034 at 11:35
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 3 May 2034 at 12:16
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 11 May 2034 at 10:56
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 423 / 1376
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 423 of Meeus index or 1376 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.38 days
Length of current 423 lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 11 minutes. It is 1 hour and 24 minutes longer than next lunation 424 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 33 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 36 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠337.6°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠337.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠353.9°. 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 after apogee
6 days after point of apogee on 6 April 2034 at 03:44 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 6 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 19 April 2034 at 04:07 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 386 662 km
Moon is 386 662 km (240 261 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 6 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 357 338 km (222 040 mi).
Moon before descending node
9 days after its ascending node on 2 April 2034 at 21:12 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 4 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 17 April 2034 at 02:12 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
9 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days after previous South standstill on 10 April 2034 at 02:35 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-18.168°. Next 10 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠18.212° in the next northern standstill on 22 April 2034 at 20:25 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 6 days
After 6 days on 18 April 2034 at 19:26 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.