Waning
Crescent ♍ Virgo
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 ♍ Virgo.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 6 December 2050 at 06:27 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 ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing about ∠17° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1769"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1948".
Cold Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2050 after 21 days on 28 December 2050 at 05:15.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 14 December 2050 at 05:18
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 21 December 2050 at 04:15
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 28 December 2050 at 05:15
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 5 January 2051 at 04:29
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 629 / 1582
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 629 of Meeus index or 1582 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.65 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 37 minutes. It is 1 hour and 57 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 53 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 10 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠245°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠245°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠282.8°.
Moon before perigee
11 days after point of perigee on 25 November 2050 at 05:46 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 7 December 2050 at 02:39 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 405 247 km
The Moon is 405 247 km (251 809 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 411 km (251 289 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days after descending node on 26 November 2050 at 21:02 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 11 December 2050 at 00:42 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
22 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 29 November 2050 at 15:05 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.809°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.822° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 December 2050 at 02:00 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 14 December 2050 at 05:18 in ♐ Sagittarius 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.
