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

Last Quarter in Aries

Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 51% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.

* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 20 July 2060 at 13:24 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 ♈ Aries

Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♉ Taurus later.

Sturgeon Moon after 22 days

Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2060 after 22 days on 12 August 2060 at 00:51.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1973"

Lunar disc appears visually 4.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1888".

Lunation 748 / 1701

The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 748 of Meeus index or 1701 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.41 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 52 minutes and it is 2 hours and 15 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 shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 52 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 17 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠54.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠54.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠84.5°.

Moon at perigee

Moon is at perigee at 04:58 about 13 days since last apogee on 6 July 2060 at 13:25 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next apogee on 3 August 2060 at 08:10 in ♎ Libra.

Distance to Moon 369 731 km

This perigee Moon is 369 731 km (229 740 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest perigee of 2060. It is 7 223 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 625 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.

Moon in ascending node

Moon is in ascending node in ♈ Aries at 22:57 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next descending node later on 3 August 2060 at 14:41 in ♎ Libra.

Moon before northern standstill

8 days since the last southern standstill on 12 July 2060 at 09:29 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.639° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.680° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 July 2060 at 08:10 in ♋ Cancer.

New draconic month

At 22:57 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.

Syzygy in 7 days

In 7 days on 27 July 2060 at 12:49 in ♌ Leo 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