Last
Quarter* ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 55% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 55% and getting smaller. The 21 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 29 September 2021 at 01:57 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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1775"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1775" and ∠1915".
Hunter Moon after 22 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2021 after 22 days on 20 October 2021 at 14:57.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 29 September 2021 at 01:57
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 6 October 2021 at 11:05
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 13 October 2021 at 03:25
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 20 October 2021 at 14:57
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 268 / 1221
The Moon is 21 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 268 of Meeus index or 1221 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.43 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 14 minutes. It is 5 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 30 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 39 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠297.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠297.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠323.3°.
Moon after apogee
1 day after point of apogee on 26 September 2021 at 21:44 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 8 October 2021 at 17:28 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 403 886 km
The Moon is 403 886 km (250 963 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 388 km (225 799 mi).
Moon after ascending node
2 days after ascending node on 26 September 2021 at 07:33 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 9 October 2021 at 19:35 in ♏ Scorpio.
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 before northern standstill
13 days since the previous standstill on 15 September 2021 at 03:48 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.980°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠26.109° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 September 2021 at 08:26 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 6 October 2021 at 11:05 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.
