Waning
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 51% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 51% and getting smaller. The 22 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 10 March 2045 at 12:50 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 ∠20° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1795"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1795" and ∠1931".
Pink Moon after 22 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2045 after 22 days on 1 April 2045 at 18:43.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 18 March 2045 at 17:15
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 26 March 2045 at 00:56
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 1 April 2045 at 18:43
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 9 April 2045 at 07:52
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 558 / 1511
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 558 of Meeus index or 1511 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.73 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 24 minutes. It is 3 hours and 12 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 4 hours and 40 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 23 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠207.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠207.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠238.6°.
Moon before perigee
8 days after point of perigee on 1 March 2045 at 18:43 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 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 13 March 2045 at 18:23 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 399 412 km
The Moon is 399 412 km (248 183 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 311 km (251 849 mi).
Moon before ascending node
7 days after descending node on 2 March 2045 at 13:33 in ♌ Leo. 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 16 March 2045 at 12:51 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
21 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 22:47 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.164°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.089° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 25 March 2045 at 07:00.
Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 days on 18 March 2045 at 17:15 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.
