Waning
Crescent ♋ Cancer
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 10 September 2020 at 09:26 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 ∠19° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1810"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1810" and ∠1906".
Hunter Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2020 after 21 days on 1 October 2020 at 21:05.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 17 September 2020 at 11:00
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 24 September 2020 at 01:55
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 1 October 2020 at 21:05
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 10 October 2020 at 00:39
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 255 / 1208
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 255 of Meeus index or 1208 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.35 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 19 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2020. It is 12 minutes shorter 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 26 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 44 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠322.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠322.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠341.2°.
Moon after apogee
4 days after point of apogee on 6 September 2020 at 06:31 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 18 September 2020 at 13:44 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 395 913 km
The Moon is 395 913 km (246 009 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 081 km (223 123 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♊ Gemini at 23:05 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 23 September 2020 at 12:33 in ♐ Sagittarius.
New draconic month
At 23:05 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
12 days since the previous standstill on 28 August 2020 at 14:06 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.219°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠24.353° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 September 2020 at 05:25 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 17 September 2020 at 11:00 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.
