Waning
Crescent ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 43% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 43% and getting smaller. The 22 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 25 January 2060 at 19:14 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 ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1787"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1787" and ∠1949".
Snow Moon after 20 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2060 after 20 days on 16 February 2060 at 09:56.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 2 February 2060 at 05:22
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 8 February 2060 at 21:41
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 16 February 2060 at 09:56
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 24 February 2060 at 15:06
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 742 / 1695
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 742 of Meeus index or 1695 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.53 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 42 minutes. It is 1 hour and 53 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 2 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 7 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠297.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠297.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠323.8°.
Moon after apogee
2 days after point of apogee on 23 January 2060 at 16:37 in ♎ Libra. 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 4 February 2060 at 10:39 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 400 997 km
The Moon is 400 997 km (249 168 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 348 km (225 774 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♏ Scorpio at 11:07 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 12 days later on 8 February 2060 at 08:15 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
14 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 before southern standstill
10 days since the previous standstill on 16 January 2060 at 03:50 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.171°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.245° at the point of next southern standstill on 30 January 2060 at 15:28 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 2 February 2060 at 05:22 in ♒ Aquarius 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.
