Last
Quarter ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 55% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 55% and getting smaller. The 21 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 14 March 2042 at 23:21 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 ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1848"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1848" and ∠1929".
Pink Moon after 22 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2042 after 22 days on 5 April 2042 at 14:16.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 21 March 2042 at 17:23
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 28 March 2042 at 12:00
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 5 April 2042 at 14:16
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 13 April 2042 at 11:09
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.
Lunation 521 / 1474
The Moon is 21 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 521 of Meeus index or 1474 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.41 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 44 minutes. It is 48 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 3 hours shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 9 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠344.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠344.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠359.8°.
Moon after apogee
6 days after point of apogee on 8 March 2042 at 05:04 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 21 March 2042 at 17:40 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 387 794 km
The Moon is 387 794 km (240 964 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 943 km (221 794 mi).
Moon after descending node
4 days after descending node on 10 March 2042 at 07:08 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 23 March 2042 at 10:11 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
18 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
13 days since the previous standstill on 28 February 2042 at 23:35 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.031°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-28.137° at the point of next southern standstill on 15 March 2042 at 17:54 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 21 March 2042 at 17:23 in ♓ Pisces 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.
