Waning
Crescent ♏ Scorpio
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 ♎ Libra.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 3 January 2089 at 18:00 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 ♎ Libra
Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1855"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1855" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2089 after 21 days on 26 January 2089 at 11:25.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 11 January 2089 at 20:17
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 19 January 2089 at 19:47
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 26 January 2089 at 11:25
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 2 February 2089 at 10:23
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 1100 / 2053
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1100 of Meeus index or 2053 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.81 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 26 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2089. It is 28 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 6 hours and 42 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 21 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠160.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠160.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠185.7°.
Moon before perigee
7 days after point of perigee on 28 December 2088 at 06:32 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 11 January 2089 at 04:23 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 386 366 km
The Moon is 386 366 km (240 077 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 703 km (252 714 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♎ Libra at 12:45 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 19 January 2089 at 04:30 in ♈ Aries.
New draconic month
At 12:45 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before southern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 27 December 2088 at 04:20 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.933°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.913° at the point of next southern standstill on 9 January 2089 at 11:54 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 11 January 2089 at 20:17 in ♑ Capricorn 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.
