Last
Quarter ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 53% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 53% and getting smaller. The 21 days old Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 23 April 2060 at 18:53 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 is entering ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1893"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1893" and ∠1908".
Flower Moon after 22 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2060 after 22 days on 15 May 2060 at 13:39.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 30 April 2060 at 10:11
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 7 May 2060 at 09:19
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 15 May 2060 at 13:39
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 23 May 2060 at 03:01
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 745 / 1698
The Moon is 21 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 745 of Meeus index or 1698 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.36 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 33 minutes. It is 20 minutes longer 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 4 hours and 11 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 58 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠358.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠358.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠13.7°.
Moon before apogee
8 days after point of apogee on 14 April 2060 at 20:02 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 29 April 2060 at 14:53 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 378 603 km
The Moon is 378 603 km (235 253 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 297 km (222 635 mi).
Moon after descending node
6 days after descending node on 16 April 2060 at 20:33 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 30 April 2060 at 05:58 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
1 day since the previous standstill on 21 April 2060 at 15:27 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.732°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.728° at the point of next northern standstill on 4 May 2060 at 05:51 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 30 April 2060 at 10:11 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.
