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 53% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.

* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 21 July 2079 at 17:54 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 ∠4° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♉ Taurus later.

Sturgeon Moon after 22 days

Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2079 after 22 days on 12 August 2079 at 17:00.

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 ∠1930"

Lunar disc appears visually 2.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1930" and ∠1888".

Lunation 983 / 1936

The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 983 of Meeus index or 1936 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.29 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 2 minutes and it is 1 hour and 27 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 5 hours and 42 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 27 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠12°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠12° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠28.8°.

Moon before perigee

10 days since point of apogee on 11 July 2079 at 01:15 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 26 July 2079 at 14:32 in ♋ Cancer.

Distance to Moon 371 338 km

The Moon is 371 338 km (230 739 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 454 km (224 597 mi).

Moon in ascending node

Moon is in ascending node in ♈ Aries at 12:53 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next descending node later on 3 August 2079 at 04:34 in ♎ Libra.

Moon before northern standstill

8 days since the last southern standstill on 12 July 2079 at 17:02 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.936° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.003° at the point of next northern standstill on 26 July 2079 at 06:44 in ♋ Cancer.

New draconic month

At 12:53 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 6 days

In 6 days on 28 July 2079 at 08:33 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