Waning
Crescent ♌ Leo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 45% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 45% and getting smaller. The 22 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 10 October 2020 at 00:39 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 ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1862"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1862" and ∠1922".
Hunter Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2020 after 21 days on 31 October 2020 at 14:49.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 16 October 2020 at 19:31
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 23 October 2020 at 13:23
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 31 October 2020 at 14:49
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 8 November 2020 at 13:46
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 256 / 1209
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 256 of Meeus index or 1209 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.35 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 31 minutes. It is 1 hour and 5 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 13 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 56 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠341.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠341.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠357°.
Moon before apogee
6 days after point of apogee on 3 October 2020 at 17:22 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 16 October 2020 at 23:46 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 385 001 km
The Moon is 385 001 km (239 229 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 913 km (221 775 mi).
Moon after ascending node
2 days after ascending node on 8 October 2020 at 00:29 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 20 October 2020 at 15:53 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
2 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 9 October 2020 at 13:07 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.613°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.708° at the point of next southern standstill on 22 October 2020 at 02:00 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 16 October 2020 at 19:31 in ♎ Libra 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.
