Waning
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 50% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 50% and getting smaller. The 22 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 14 September 2006 at 11:15 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 ∠22° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1877"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1877" and ∠1908".
Hunter Moon after 22 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2006 after 22 days on 7 October 2006 at 03:13.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 22 September 2006 at 11:45
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 30 September 2006 at 11:04
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 7 October 2006 at 03:13
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 14 October 2006 at 00:25
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 82 / 1035
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 82 of Meeus index or 1035 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.69 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 35 minutes. It is 54 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the 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 3 hours and 51 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 12 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠158.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠158.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠182.3°.
Moon after perigee
6 days after point of perigee on 8 September 2006 at 03:07 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 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 22 September 2006 at 05:21 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 381 798 km
The Moon is 381 798 km (237 238 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 500 km (252 587 mi).
Moon after ascending node
6 days after ascending node on 8 September 2006 at 11:01 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 22 September 2006 at 03:42 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
6 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 2 September 2006 at 13:11 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.705°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠28.725° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 September 2006 at 01:28 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 22 September 2006 at 11:45 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.
