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

Last Quarter in Capricorn

Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 42% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.

* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 27 March 2057 at 18:39 UTC.

Moonrise and moonset

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

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♑ Capricorn

Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

Pink Moon after 21 days

Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2057 after 21 days on 19 April 2057 at 10:49.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1955"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1955" and ∠1922".

Lunation 707 / 1660

The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 707 of Meeus index or 1660 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.59 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 7 minutes and it is 54 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 1 hour and 23 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 40 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠80°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠80° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠117°.

Moon after perigee

4 days since point of perigee on 24 March 2057 at 08:23 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 9 April 2057 at 05:48 in ♊ Gemini.

Distance to Moon 366 725 km

The Moon is 366 725 km (227 872 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 996 km (251 653 mi).

Moon after descending node

1 day after descending node on 27 March 2057 at 19:16 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 10 April 2057 at 19:48 in ♋ Cancer.

Moon at southern standstill

At 01:43 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-23.258°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠23.399° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 11 April 2057 at 06:46.

Draconic month

13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 6 days

In 6 days on 4 April 2057 at 01:31 in ♈ Aries 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