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
Length of current 166 lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 18 minutes. It is 42 minutes longer than next lunation 167 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 34 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 29 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠168.8°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠168.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠191.6°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after perigee
6 days after point of perigee on 23 June 2013 at 11:09 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 7 July 2013 at 00:36 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 381 991 km
Moon is 381 991 km (237 358 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 7 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 493 km (252 583 mi).
Moon before descending node
9 days after its ascending node on 20 June 2013 at 09:51 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 3 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 3 July 2013 at 04:15 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
9 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
6 days after previous South standstill on 22 June 2013 at 16:11 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-20.186°. Next 6 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠20.170° in the next northern standstill on 6 July 2013 at 02:09 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 8 days
After 8 days on 8 July 2013 at 07:14 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.