Waning
Crescent ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 48% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 48% and getting smaller. The 22 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 25 February 2049 at 07:36 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 ∠10° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1956"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1956" and ∠1938".
Worm Moon after 22 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2049 after 22 days on 19 March 2049 at 12:23.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 4 March 2049 at 00:11
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 11 March 2049 at 11:26
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 19 March 2049 at 12:23
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 26 March 2049 at 15:10
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 607 / 1560
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 607 of Meeus index or 1560 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.46 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 56 minutes. It is 32 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 48 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 21 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠20°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠20°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠39.7°.
Moon before apogee
11 days after point of apogee on 13 February 2049 at 12:40 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 1 March 2049 at 12:45 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 366 510 km
The Moon is 366 510 km (227 739 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 178 km (226 290 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 20:27 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 10 March 2049 at 19:09 in ♊ Gemini.
New draconic month
At 20:27 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before southern standstill
13 days since the previous standstill on 11 February 2049 at 21:45 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.719°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-22.575° at the point of next southern standstill on 26 February 2049 at 03:09 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 4 March 2049 at 00:11 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.
