Last
Quarter ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 52% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 52% and getting smaller. The 22 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 21 March 2044 at 16:52 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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1925".
Pink Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2044 after 21 days on 12 April 2044 at 09:39.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 29 March 2044 at 09:26
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 5 April 2044 at 03:45
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 12 April 2044 at 09:39
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 20 April 2044 at 11:48
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 546 / 1499
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 546 of Meeus index or 1499 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.55 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 14 minutes. It is 2 hours and 58 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 30 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 33 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠272.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠272.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠304.8°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 01:56. It is 13 days after previous perigee on 7 March 2044 at 20:36 in ♊ Gemini. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 11 days, until point of next perigee on 2 April 2044 at 02:16 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 404 337 km
This apogee Moon is 404 337 km (251 243 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 071 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 372 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
7 days after descending node on 13 March 2044 at 13:10 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 27 March 2044 at 23:51 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
20 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 10:24 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.641°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2044. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.596° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 3 April 2044 at 22:19.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 29 March 2044 at 09:26 in ♈ Aries 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.
