Last
Quarter ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 53% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 53% and getting smaller. The 21 days old Moon is in ♈ Aries.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 21 July 2049 at 18:48 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 ♈ Aries
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♉ Taurus later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1878"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1878" and ∠1889".
Sturgeon Moon after 22 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2049 after 22 days on 13 August 2049 at 09:19.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 29 July 2049 at 20:07
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 6 August 2049 at 17:52
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 13 August 2049 at 09:19
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 20 August 2049 at 07:10
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 612 / 1565
The Moon is 21 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 612 of Meeus index or 1565 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.64 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 17 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2049. It is 6 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 2 hours and 33 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 30 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠162.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠162.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠185.8°.
Moon after perigee
6 days after point of perigee on 15 July 2049 at 07:18 in ♑ Capricorn. 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 29 July 2049 at 04:27 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 381 730 km
The Moon is 381 730 km (237 196 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 570 km (252 631 mi).
Moon before descending node
9 days after ascending node on 12 July 2049 at 03:19 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 24 July 2049 at 21:01 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
9 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 12 July 2049 at 19:01 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.045°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.002° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 July 2049 at 17:25 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 days on 29 July 2049 at 20:07 in ♌ Leo 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.
