Waning
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 46% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 46% and getting smaller. The 22 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 12 September 2009 at 02:16 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 ∠25° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1957"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1957" and ∠1907".
Hunter Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2009 after 21 days on 4 October 2009 at 06:10.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 18 September 2009 at 18:44
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 26 September 2009 at 04:50
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 4 October 2009 at 06:10
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 11 October 2009 at 08:56
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 119 / 1072
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 119 of Meeus index or 1072 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.36 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 43 minutes. It is 2 hours and 6 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 4 hours and 1 minute shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 8 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠20.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠20.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠39.3°.
Moon before apogee
12 days after point of apogee on 31 August 2009 at 11:04 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 16 September 2009 at 07:55 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 366 252 km
The Moon is 366 252 km (227 578 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 054 km (226 213 mi).
Moon before descending node
11 days after ascending node on 1 September 2009 at 03:18 in ♑ Capricorn. 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 14 September 2009 at 20:56 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
11 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 04:36 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠26.289°. Over the next 12 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-26.188° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 25 September 2009 at 04:03.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 18 September 2009 at 18:44 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.
