Last
Quarter* ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 58% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 58% and getting smaller. The 21 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 26 April 2038 at 06:15 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 ∠4° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1864"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1864" and ∠1907".
Flower Moon after 23 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2038 after 23 days on 18 May 2038 at 18:23.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 26 April 2038 at 06:15
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 4 May 2038 at 09:19
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 12 May 2038 at 04:18
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 18 May 2038 at 18:23
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 473 / 1426
The Moon is 21 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 473 of Meeus index or 1426 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.69 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 37 minutes. It is 1 hour 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°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 53 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 10 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠175.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠175.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠198.9°.
Moon after perigee
6 days after point of perigee on 19 April 2038 at 04:30 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 2 May 2038 at 08:35 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 384 470 km
The Moon is 384 470 km (238 899 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 509 km (252 593 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 24 April 2038 at 11:37 in ♑ Capricorn. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 13 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 9 May 2038 at 02:33 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 24 April 2038 at 09:38 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.806°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.927° at the point of next northern standstill on 9 May 2038 at 03:15 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 days on 4 May 2038 at 09:19 in ♉ Taurus 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.
