Last Quarter Moon
Last Quarter MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Last Quarter in Scorpio

Last Quarter on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 46% and getting smaller. Lunar cycle is 22 days old.

* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 7 February 2048 at 03:16 UTC.

Moonrise and moonset

Moon rises at midnight and sets at noon. It is visible to the south in the morning.

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♏ Scorpio

Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.

Snow Moon after 22 days

Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2048 after 22 days on 29 February 2048 at 14:38.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1972"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1945".

Lunation 594 / 1547

The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 594 of Meeus index or 1547 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.54 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 59 minutes and it is 57 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).

Lunation length longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 15 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 48 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠37.7°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠37.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠64.6°.

Moon before perigee

13 days since point of apogee on 24 January 2048 at 21:24 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 9 February 2048 at 09:12 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Distance to Moon 363 466 km

The Moon is 363 466 km (225 847 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 129 km (229 366 mi).

Moon before ascending node

10 days after descending node on 28 January 2048 at 06:52 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 10 February 2048 at 12:30 in ♑ Capricorn.

Moon before southern standstill

11 days since the last northern standstill on 26 January 2048 at 19:32 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.528° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-24.460° at the point of next southern standstill on 9 February 2048 at 07:42 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

24 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 6 days

In 6 days on 14 February 2048 at 00:31 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov