Waning
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 44% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 44% and getting smaller. The 22 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 17 September 2022 at 21:52 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 is entering ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1771"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1771" and ∠1910".
Hunter Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2022 after 21 days on 9 October 2022 at 20:55.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 25 September 2022 at 21:54
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 3 October 2022 at 00:14
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 9 October 2022 at 20:55
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 17 October 2022 at 17:15
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 280 / 1233
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 280 of Meeus index or 1233 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.57 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 37 minutes. It is 43 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 53 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 10 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠230.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠230.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠265.5°.
Moon before perigee
10 days after point of perigee on 7 September 2022 at 18:17 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 19 September 2022 at 14:44 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 404 709 km
The Moon is 404 709 km (251 475 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 556 km (251 379 mi).
Moon after ascending node
3 days after ascending node on 14 September 2022 at 14:49 in ♉ Taurus. 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 28 September 2022 at 23:43 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
3 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 22:10 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠27.316°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-27.411° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 2 October 2022 at 19:33.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 25 September 2022 at 21:54 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.
