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

Last Quarter in Capricorn

Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 48% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.

* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 17 March 2096 at 06:18 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 ♑ Capricorn

Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

Pink Moon after 21 days

Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2096 after 21 days on 7 April 2096 at 18:18.

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 ∠1807"

Lunar disc appears visually 6.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1807" and ∠1927".

Lunation 1189 / 2142

The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1189 of Meeus index or 2142 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.43 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 26 minutes and it is 1 hour and 37 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 shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 18 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 51 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠319.2°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠319.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠338.8°.

Moon after apogee

4 days since point of apogee on 13 March 2096 at 11:32 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 25 March 2096 at 15:09 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 396 609 km

The Moon is 396 609 km (246 441 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 681 km (223 495 mi).

Moon after descending node

2 days after descending node on 15 March 2096 at 04:57 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 28 March 2096 at 05:08 in ♊ Gemini.

Moon before southern standstill

13 days since the last northern standstill on 3 March 2096 at 15:30 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.928° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-26.068° at the point of next southern standstill on 18 March 2096 at 04:59 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

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

Syzygy in 6 days

In 6 days on 24 March 2096 at 08:54 in ♈ Aries 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