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

Last Quarter in Leo

Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 56% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 days old.

* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 31 October 2094 at 02:09 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 is entering ♌ Leo

Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.

Beaver Moon after 22 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2094 after 22 days on 22 November 2094 at 05:27.

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 ∠1792"

Lunar disc appears visually 7.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1792" and ∠1933".

Lunation 1172 / 2125

The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1172 of Meeus index or 2125 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 50 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit 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 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 ∠216.5°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠216.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠250.4°.

Moon before apogee

8 days since point of perigee on 21 October 2094 at 18:48 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 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 2 November 2094 at 15:27 in ♍ Virgo.

Distance to Moon 399 931 km

The Moon is 399 931 km (248 506 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 997 km (251 653 mi).

Moon after ascending node

2 days after ascending node on 27 October 2094 at 23:56 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 11 November 2094 at 11:01 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Moon after northern standstill

1 day since the last northern standstill on 28 October 2094 at 21:45 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.975° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.067° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 November 2094 at 09:33 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 8 days

In 8 days on 8 November 2094 at 04:42 in ♏ Scorpio 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