Last Quarter Moon
Last Quarter MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Last Quarter in Aquarius

Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 52% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.

* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 28 April 2092 at 17:08 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 ♒ Aquarius

Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.

Flower Moon after 22 days

Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2092 after 22 days on 21 May 2092 at 10:00.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1912"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1912" and ∠1905".

Lunation 1141 / 2094

The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1141 of Meeus index or 2094 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.67 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 58 minutes and it is 19 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2092. 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 14 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 49 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠140.8°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠140.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠167.3°.

Moon after perigee

5 days since point of perigee on 23 April 2092 at 01:16 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 7 May 2092 at 23:16 in ♉ Taurus.

Distance to Moon 374 801 km

The Moon is 374 801 km (232 891 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 537 km (252 610 mi).

Moon before descending node

11 days after ascending node on 17 April 2092 at 00:51 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 29 April 2092 at 12:00 in ♒ Aquarius.

Moon after southern standstill

1 day since the last southern standstill on 26 April 2092 at 12:18 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.820° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.946° at the point of next northern standstill on 10 May 2092 at 22:54 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

11 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 8 days

In 8 days on 6 May 2092 at 13:39 in ♉ Taurus 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