Waning
Crescent ♏ Scorpio
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 48% and getting smaller. The 22 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 31 January 2035 at 06:02 UTC.
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Moon rises at midnight and sets at noon. It is visible to the south in the morning.
Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 9.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1779" and ∠1947".
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2035 after 21 days on 22 February 2035 at 08:54.
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.
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 433 of Meeus index or 1386 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 19 minutes. It is 2 hours and 32 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°).
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 35 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 28 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠220.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠255.7°.
9 days after point of perigee on 21 January 2035 at 18:05 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 2 February 2035 at 12:48 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 403 000 km (250 413 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 000 km (251 655 mi).
4 days after ascending node on 26 January 2035 at 19:11 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 10 February 2035 at 07:03 in ♓ Pisces.
4 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
9 days since the previous standstill on 21 January 2035 at 19:52 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.494°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.448° at the point of next southern standstill on 4 February 2035 at 16:35 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 7 days on 8 February 2035 at 08:22 in ♒ Aquarius 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.