Waning
Crescent ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 45% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 45% and getting smaller. The 22 days old Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 5 June 2037 at 22:49 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 ♓ Pisces
Moon is passing about ∠22° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1891".
Strawberry Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2037 after 21 days on 27 June 2037 at 15:20.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 13 June 2037 at 17:10
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 20 June 2037 at 13:45
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 27 June 2037 at 15:20
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 5 July 2037 at 16:00
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 462 / 1415
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 462 of Meeus index or 1415 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.47 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 16 minutes. It is 1 hour and 54 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°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 28 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 41 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠258.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠258.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠292.3°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 01:22. It is 12 days after previous perigee on 24 May 2037 at 14:45 in ♍ Virgo. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 12 days, until point of next perigee on 18 June 2037 at 16:37 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 404 141 km
This apogee Moon is 404 141 km (251 122 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest apogee of 2037. It is 1 267 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 90 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
4 days after descending node on 2 June 2037 at 03:23 in ♑ Capricorn. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 16 June 2037 at 07:41 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
17 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
5 days since the previous standstill on 31 May 2037 at 16:34 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.325°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.359° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 June 2037 at 01:37 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 13 June 2037 at 17:10 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.
