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 5 May 2059 at 01:29 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 passing about ∠21° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1968"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1968" and ∠1902".
Flower Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2059 after 21 days on 27 May 2059 at 08:04.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 11 May 2059 at 19:15
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 19 May 2059 at 10:22
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 27 May 2059 at 08:04
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 3 June 2059 at 06:20
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 733 / 1686
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 733 of Meeus index or 1686 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.41 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 47 minutes. It is 55 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 58 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 12 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠30°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠30°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠53.2°.
Moon before apogee
12 days after point of apogee on 22 April 2059 at 12:03 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 8 May 2059 at 06:41 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 364 147 km
The Moon is 364 147 km (226 270 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 831 km (227 938 mi).
Moon after descending node
6 days after descending node on 29 April 2059 at 07:01 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 12 May 2059 at 04:37 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
20 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
3 days since the previous standstill on 2 May 2059 at 11:32 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.654°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.665° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 May 2059 at 08:44 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 11 May 2059 at 19:15 in ♉ Taurus 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.
