Waning
Crescent ♊ Gemini
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 49% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 49% and getting smaller. The 22 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 28 August 2013 at 09:35 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 ∠6° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1783"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1783" and ∠1900".
Harvest Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2013 after 21 days on 19 September 2013 at 11:13.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 5 September 2013 at 11:36
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 12 September 2013 at 17:08
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 19 September 2013 at 11:13
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 27 September 2013 at 03:56
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 168 / 1121
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 168 of Meeus index or 1121 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.57 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 45 minutes. It is 47 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 1 hour and 1 minute longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 2 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠216.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠216.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠249.2°.
Moon before perigee
9 days after point of perigee on 19 August 2013 at 01:26 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 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 30 August 2013 at 23:46 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 401 939 km
The Moon is 401 939 km (249 753 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 883 km (251 583 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after descending node on 26 August 2013 at 08:19 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 9 September 2013 at 17:29 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
14 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 16 August 2013 at 12:06 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.906°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠19.801° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 August 2013 at 17:03 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 5 September 2013 at 11:36 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.
