Waning
Crescent ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 46% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 46% and getting smaller. The 22 days old Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 17 April 2047 at 03:30 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 is entering ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1864"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1864" and ∠1911".
Flower Moon after 22 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2047 after 22 days on 9 May 2047 at 18:24.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 25 April 2047 at 04:40
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 3 May 2047 at 03:26
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 9 May 2047 at 18:24
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 16 May 2047 at 16:46
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 584 / 1537
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 584 of Meeus index or 1537 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.71 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 56 minutes. It is 1 hour and 8 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 12 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 51 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠161.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠161.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠185.7°.
Moon after perigee
6 days after point of perigee on 10 April 2047 at 16:08 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 24 April 2047 at 13:11 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 384 564 km
The Moon is 384 564 km (238 957 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 676 km (252 697 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 16 April 2047 at 14:32 in ♑ Capricorn. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 13 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 1 May 2047 at 06:05 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
3 days since the previous standstill on 14 April 2047 at 10:31 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.536°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.418° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 April 2047 at 23:17 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 25 April 2047 at 04:40 in ♉ Taurus 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.
