Waning
Crescent ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 50% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 50% and getting smaller. The 22 days old Moon is in ♌ Leo.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 19 November 2057 at 11:31 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 ♌ Leo
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1803"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1803" and ∠1942".
Cold Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2057 after 21 days on 11 December 2057 at 00:46.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 26 November 2057 at 14:22
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 3 December 2057 at 05:54
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 11 December 2057 at 00:46
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 19 December 2057 at 05:02
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 715 / 1668
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 715 of Meeus index or 1668 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.46 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 3 minutes. It is 3 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 41 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 28 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠318.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠318.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠339°.
Moon after apogee
3 days after point of apogee on 15 November 2057 at 17:25 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 27 November 2057 at 20:20 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 397 435 km
The Moon is 397 435 km (246 955 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 527 km (223 400 mi).
Moon after ascending node
5 days after ascending node on 14 November 2057 at 04:02 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 27 November 2057 at 21:30 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
5 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
3 days since the previous standstill on 15 November 2057 at 14:41 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.485°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.511° at the point of next southern standstill on 29 November 2057 at 01:11 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 26 November 2057 at 14:22 in ♏ Scorpio 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.
