Waning
Crescent ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 45% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 45% and getting smaller. The 22 days old Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 10 May 2053 at 23:40 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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1807"
Lunar disc appears visually 5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1807" and ∠1899".
Strawberry Moon after 20 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2053 after 20 days on 1 June 2053 at 11:02.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 18 May 2053 at 03:43
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 24 May 2053 at 18:04
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 1 June 2053 at 11:02
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 9 June 2053 at 14:19
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 659 / 1612
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 659 of Meeus index or 1612 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.37 days
Length of current 659 lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 55 minutes. It is 1 hour and 47 minutes longer than next lunation 660 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 49 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 20 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠316.1°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠316.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠336.2°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after apogee
4 days after point of apogee on 7 May 2053 at 10:56 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 8 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 19 May 2053 at 14:01 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 396 609 km
Moon is 396 609 km (246 441 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 8 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 360 272 km (223 863 mi).
Moon before descending node
12 days after its ascending node on 29 April 2053 at 02:42 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 2 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 13 May 2053 at 15:17 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
12 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
4 days after previous South standstill on 6 May 2053 at 20:48 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-18.351°. Next 8 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠18.416° in the next northern standstill on 20 May 2053 at 10:17 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 6 days
After 6 days on 18 May 2053 at 03:43 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.