Waning
Crescent ♍ Virgo
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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 ♌ Leo.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 14 November 2071 at 14:24 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 ♌ Leo
Moon is passing about ∠21° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1970"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1940".
Cold Moon after 22 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2071 after 22 days on 7 December 2071 at 06:57.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 21 November 2071 at 18:59
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 29 November 2071 at 21:06
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 7 December 2071 at 06:57
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 13 December 2071 at 22:57
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 888 / 1841
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 888 of Meeus index or 1841 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.59 days
Length of current 888 lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 10 minutes. It is 2 hours and 37 minutes shorter than next lunation 889 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 26 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 37 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠67.5°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠67.5°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠102.9°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon after perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 12 November 2071 at 01:07 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 13 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 27 November 2071 at 16:12 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 363 791 km
Moon is 363 791 km (226 049 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 13 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 865 km (251 571 mi).
Moon before ascending node
10 days after its descending node on 4 November 2071 at 02:46 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 2 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 17 November 2071 at 01:15 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
24 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
3 days after previous North standstill on 11 November 2071 at 00:34 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠18.336°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-18.413° in the next southern standstill on 24 November 2071 at 07:52 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 7 days
After 7 days on 21 November 2071 at 18:59 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.