Waning
Crescent ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 50% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 50% and getting smaller. The 22 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 7 April 2037 at 11:25 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 passing about ∠18° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1807"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1807" and ∠1916".
Pink Moon after 22 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2037 after 22 days on 29 April 2037 at 18:54.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 15 April 2037 at 16:08
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 23 April 2037 at 03:11
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 29 April 2037 at 18:54
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 7 May 2037 at 04:56
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 460 / 1413
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 460 of Meeus index or 1413 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.69 days
Length of current 460 lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 31 minutes. It is 2 hours and 44 minutes longer than next lunation 461 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 47 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 16 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠197.5°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠197.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠225.1°. 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
8 days after point of perigee on 30 March 2037 at 06:31 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 4 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 11 April 2037 at 13:04 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 396 714 km
Moon is 396 714 km (246 507 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 4 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 679 km (252 077 mi).
Moon before descending node
11 days after its ascending node on 27 March 2037 at 01:19 in ♌ Leo, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 8 April 2037 at 21:20 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
11 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day after previous South standstill on 6 April 2037 at 21:45 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-20.915°. Next 13 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠21.064° in the next northern standstill on 21 April 2037 at 11:52 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 8 days
After 8 days on 15 April 2037 at 16:08 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.