Waning
Crescent ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 43% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 43% and getting smaller. The 22 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 8 February 2045 at 19:03 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 ♏ Scorpio
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♐ Sagittarius later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1818"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1818" and ∠1944".
Worm Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2045 after 21 days on 3 March 2045 at 07:52.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 16 February 2045 at 23:51
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 24 February 2045 at 16:37
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 3 March 2045 at 07:52
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 10 March 2045 at 12:50
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 557 / 1510
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 557 of Meeus index or 1510 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.81 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 26 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2045. It is 2 hours and 2 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 6 hours and 42 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 21 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠182.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠182.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠207.6°.
Moon before perigee
8 days after point of perigee on 1 February 2045 at 08:43 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 14 February 2045 at 02:57 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 394 175 km
The Moon is 394 175 km (244 929 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 254 km (252 435 mi).
Moon after descending node
6 days after descending node on 3 February 2045 at 02:18 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 17 February 2045 at 06:00 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
19 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 before southern standstill
10 days since the previous standstill on 29 January 2045 at 16:53 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.156°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.184° at the point of next southern standstill on 11 February 2045 at 15:40 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 16 February 2045 at 23:51 in ♒ Aquarius 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.
