Last
Quarter* ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 58% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 58% and getting smaller. The 21 days old Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 30 June 2013 at 04:54 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 ♓ Pisces
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♈ Aries later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1876"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1876" and ∠1887".
Buck Moon after 23 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2013 after 23 days on 22 July 2013 at 18:15.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 30 June 2013 at 04:54
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 8 July 2013 at 07:14
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 16 July 2013 at 03:18
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 22 July 2013 at 18:15
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunation 166 / 1119
The Moon is 21 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 166 of Meeus index or 1119 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.64 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 18 minutes. It is 42 minutes longer 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 2 hours and 34 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 29 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠168.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠168.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠191.6°.
Moon after perigee
6 days after point of perigee on 23 June 2013 at 11:09 in ♑ Capricorn. 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 7 July 2013 at 00:36 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 381 991 km
The Moon is 381 991 km (237 358 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 493 km (252 583 mi).
Moon before descending node
9 days after ascending node on 20 June 2013 at 09:51 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 3 July 2013 at 04:15 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
9 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 22 June 2013 at 16:11 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.186°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.170° at the point of next northern standstill on 6 July 2013 at 02:09 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 days on 8 July 2013 at 07:14 in ♋ Cancer 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.
