Waning
Crescent ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 51% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 51% and getting smaller. The 22 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 8 April 2064 at 14:25 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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1836"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1836" and ∠1915".
Flower Moon after 22 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2064 after 22 days on 1 May 2064 at 02:08.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 16 April 2064 at 19:02
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 24 April 2064 at 11:17
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 1 May 2064 at 02:08
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 8 May 2064 at 06:16
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 794 / 1747
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 794 of Meeus index or 1747 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.72 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 17 minutes. It is 2 hours and 24 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 33 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 30 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠181.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠181.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠206.1°.
Moon before perigee
7 days after point of perigee on 1 April 2064 at 05:29 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 14 April 2064 at 02:09 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 390 316 km
The Moon is 390 316 km (242 531 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 249 km (252 431 mi).
Moon before ascending node
10 days after descending node on 29 March 2064 at 11:52 in ♌ Leo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 11 April 2064 at 08:46 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
24 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, 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 6 April 2064 at 15:48 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.645°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.520° at the point of next northern standstill on 21 April 2064 at 08:45 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 days on 16 April 2064 at 19:02 in ♈ Aries 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.
