Last Quarter Moon
Last Quarter MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Last Quarter in Leo

Last Quarter on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 44% and getting smaller. Lunar cycle is 22 days old.

* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 16 October 2041 at 21:05 UTC.

Moonrise and moonset

Moon rises at midnight and sets at noon. It is visible to the south in the morning.

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon is entering ♌ Leo

Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.

Beaver Moon after 21 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2041 after 21 days on 8 November 2041 at 04:43.

Neap tide

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1794"

Lunar disc appears visually 7.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1794" and ∠1926".

Lunation 516 / 1469

The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 516 of Meeus index or 1469 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.7 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 49 minutes and it is 43 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2041. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit 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 4 hours and 5 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 58 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠200.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠200.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠229.1°.

Moon before apogee

8 days since point of perigee on 8 October 2041 at 12:08 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 20 October 2041 at 16:08 in ♍ Virgo.

Distance to Moon 399 584 km

The Moon is 399 584 km (248 290 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 544 km (251 993 mi).

Moon after ascending node

6 days after ascending node on 11 October 2041 at 01:30 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 25 October 2041 at 09:31 in ♏ Scorpio.

Moon after northern standstill

2 days since the last northern standstill on 15 October 2041 at 10:36 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.830° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.842° at the point of next southern standstill on 30 October 2041 at 01:24 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

6 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 7 days

In 7 days on 25 October 2041 at 01:30 in ♏ Scorpio 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov