Waning
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 52% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 52% and getting smaller. The 22 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 29 September 2002 at 17:03 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 is entering ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1851"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1851" and ∠1916".
Hunter Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2002 after 21 days on 21 October 2002 at 07:20.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 6 October 2002 at 11:17
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 13 October 2002 at 05:33
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 21 October 2002 at 07:20
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 29 October 2002 at 05:28
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 33 / 986
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 33 of Meeus index or 986 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.34 days
Length of current 33 lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 7 minutes. It is 1 hour and 10 minutes shorter than next lunation 34 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 37 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 32 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠343.1°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠343.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠358.6°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after apogee
6 days after point of apogee on 23 September 2002 at 03:26 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 6 October 2002 at 13:17 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 387 251 km
Moon is 387 251 km (240 627 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 7 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 356 920 km (221 780 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after its ascending node on 27 September 2002 at 16:06 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 10 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 10 October 2002 at 07:07 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
1 day after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
14 days after previous South standstill on 15 September 2002 at 05:34 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-25.377°. Next day the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠25.530° in the next northern standstill on 30 September 2002 at 00:04 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 6 days
After 6 days on 6 October 2002 at 11:17 in ♎ Libra, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.