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Last Quarter on
25 January 2003
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Moon phase on 25 January 2003 Saturday is
Last Quarter, 22 days old Moon is in Scorpio.

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Moon phase for

25 January 2003
Saturday 12:00 UTC
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Last Quarter phase

Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific
Visualization Studio.

Last Quarter 49% illuminated

Last Quarter is the lunar phase on 25 January
2003, Saturday. Seen from Earth, illuminated
fraction of the Moon surface is 49% and getting
smaller. The 22 days old Moon is in Scorpio.

* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter

phase is on 25 January 2003 at 08:33 UTC.

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Moon phases for next 7 days

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

Apparent angular diameter

∠ 1972"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.2% wider than
solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular
diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1949".

Snow Moon after 22 days

Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February
2003 after 22 days on 16 February 2003 at
23:51.

Upcoming main Moon

phases
New Moon in Aquarius after 6 days on

1 February 2003 at 10:48

First Quarter in Taurus after 14 days on

9 February 2003 at 11:11

Full Moon in Leo after 22 days on

16 February 2003 at 23:51

Last Quarter in Scorpio after 29 days on

23 February 2003 at 16:46

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 37 / 990
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite
is moving through the last part of current
synodic month. This is lunation 37 of Meeus
index or 990 from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.6

days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours
and 26 minutes. It is 1 hour and 21 minutes
shorter than the next lunation's length. The
lengths of the following synodic months are
going to increasing with the 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
1 hour and 41 minutes longer than the mean
synodic month length. It is 5 hours and
21 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's
longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit position on

25 January 2003
Saturday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠ 56.5°

At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true
anomaly is ∠56.5°. At the beginning of next
synodic month the true anomaly is going to be
∠90.6°.

Moon after perigee

1 day after point of perigee on 23 January 2003
at 22:43 in Libra. The lunar orbit is getting
widen, while the Moon is moving away from the
Earth. It will keep this direction over the next
13 days, until the Moon reaches the point of
next apogee on 7 February 2003 at 21:58 in
Aries.

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Distance to Moon
363 506 km
The Moon is 363 506 km (225 872 mi) away
from Earth and getting further over the next
13 days until the point apogee when Earth-
Moon distance is going to be 404 551 km
(251 376 mi).

Moon before descending

node
10 days after ascending node on
14 January 2003 at 13:38 in Gemini. The
Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the
following 2 days, until the lunar orbit crosses
from North to South in descending node on
27 January 2003 at 15:23 in Scorpio.

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Draconic month
10 days since the beginning of current draconic
month in Gemini, the Moon is navigating
from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.

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Moon before southern

standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on
17 January 2003 at 02:11 in Cancer when
the Moon has reached North declination of
∠25.794°, the lunar orbit is extending southward
over the next 4 days to face maximum
declination of ∠-25.834° at the point of next
southern standstill on 30 January 2003 at 00:31
in Capricorn.

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Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 1 February 2003 at 10:48 in
Aquarius 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.

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fl 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

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