Last
Quarter ♊ Gemini
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 53% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 53% and getting smaller. The 21 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 10 September 2001 at 19:00 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 in ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1892"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1892" and ∠1906".
Hunter Moon after 22 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2001 after 22 days on 2 October 2001 at 13:49.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 17 September 2001 at 10:27
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 24 September 2001 at 09:31
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 2 October 2001 at 13:49
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 10 October 2001 at 04:20
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 20 / 973
The Moon is 21 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 20 of Meeus index or 973 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.31 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 32 minutes. It is 1 hour and 24 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 12 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 57 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠358.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠358.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠13.2°.
Moon before apogee
8 days after point of apogee on 1 September 2001 at 23:26 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 16 September 2001 at 15:50 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 378 768 km
The Moon is 378 768 km (235 356 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 128 km (222 530 mi).
Moon before ascending node
13 days after descending node on 28 August 2001 at 09:09 in ♑ Capricorn. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 11 September 2001 at 21:36 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
25 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
12 days since the previous standstill on 28 August 2001 at 23:14 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.546°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.677° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 September 2001 at 12:19 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 17 September 2001 at 10:27 in ♍ Virgo 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.
