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 5 September 2015 at 09:54 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 ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1901"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1901" and ∠1903".
Harvest Moon after 22 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2015 after 22 days on 28 September 2015 at 02:50.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 13 September 2015 at 06:41
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 21 September 2015 at 08:59
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 28 September 2015 at 02:50
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 4 October 2015 at 21:06
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 193 / 1146
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 193 of Meeus index or 1146 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.66 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 48 minutes. It is 1 hour and 36 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 4 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 59 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠144.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠144.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠169.3°.
Moon after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 30 August 2015 at 15:24 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 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 14 September 2015 at 11:28 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 377 060 km
The Moon is 377 060 km (234 294 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 466 km (252 566 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after descending node on 31 August 2015 at 10:16 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 14 September 2015 at 04:38 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
18 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, 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 25 August 2015 at 03:44 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.206°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠18.163° at the point of next northern standstill on 6 September 2015 at 17:06 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 13 September 2015 at 06:41 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.
