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
Length of current 521 lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 44 minutes. It is 48 minutes longer than next lunation 522 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 9 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠344.2°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠344.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠359.8°. 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 after apogee
6 days after point of apogee on 8 March 2042 at 05:04 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 21 March 2042 at 17:40 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 387 794 km
Moon is 387 794 km (240 964 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 7 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 356 943 km (221 794 mi).
Moon after descending node
4 days after its descending node on 10 March 2042 at 07:08 in ♎ Libra, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 8 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 23 March 2042 at 10:11 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
18 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
13 days after previous North standstill on 28 February 2042 at 23:35 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.031°. Next day the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.137° in the next southern standstill on 15 March 2042 at 17:54 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 7 days
After 7 days on 21 March 2042 at 17:23 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.