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

Last Quarter in Cancer

Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 45% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.

* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 18 September 2049 at 23:03 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 ♋ Cancer

Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.

Hunter Moon after 21 days

Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2049 after 21 days on 11 October 2049 at 02:53.

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 ∠1784"

Lunar disc appears visually 6.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1784" and ∠1911".

Lunation 614 / 1567

The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 614 of Meeus index or 1567 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.62 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 46 minutes and it is 36 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 2 hours and 2 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 1 minute shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠210.2°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠210.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠241.4°.

Moon before apogee

9 days since point of perigee on 10 September 2049 at 00:14 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 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 22 September 2049 at 00:05 in ♌ Leo.

Distance to Moon 401 799 km

The Moon is 401 799 km (249 666 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 133 km (251 738 mi).

Moon after descending node

2 days after descending node on 17 September 2049 at 00:51 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 1 October 2049 at 11:18 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Moon after northern standstill

1 day since the last northern standstill on 18 September 2049 at 07:37 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.544° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠-21.422° at the point of next southern standstill on 2 October 2049 at 17:46 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

15 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 7 days

In 7 days on 27 September 2049 at 02:05 in ♎ Libra 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