Waning
Crescent ♌ Leo
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 ♌ Leo.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 19 October 2076 at 18:51 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 ∠6° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1775"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1775" and ∠1928".
Beaver Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2076 after 21 days on 10 November 2076 at 21:07.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 27 October 2076 at 20:50
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 4 November 2076 at 01:58
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 10 November 2076 at 21:07
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 18 November 2076 at 15:15
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 949 / 1902
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 949 of Meeus index or 1902 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.64 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 23 minutes. It is 45 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 2 hours and 39 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 24 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠219.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠219.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠254.1°.
Moon before perigee
10 days after point of perigee on 10 October 2076 at 06:57 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 22 October 2076 at 03:11 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 403 798 km
The Moon is 403 798 km (250 908 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 879 km (251 580 mi).
Moon after ascending node
3 days after ascending node on 16 October 2076 at 15:38 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 31 October 2076 at 02:13 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
3 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 18 October 2076 at 10:01 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.937°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.032° at the point of next southern standstill on 1 November 2076 at 19:09 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 27 October 2076 at 20:50 in ♎ Libra 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.
