Last
Quarter ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 53% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 53% and getting smaller. The 21 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 24 September 2024 at 18:50 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 ∠2° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1890"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1890" and ∠1913".
Hunter Moon after 22 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2024 after 22 days on 17 October 2024 at 11:26.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 2 October 2024 at 18:49
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 10 October 2024 at 18:55
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 17 October 2024 at 11:26
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 24 October 2024 at 08:03
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 305 / 1258
The Moon is 21 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 305 of Meeus index or 1258 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.7 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 54 minutes. It is 1 hour and 4 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 4 hours and 10 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 53 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠155.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠155.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠179.7°.
Moon after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 18 September 2024 at 13:26 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 2 October 2024 at 19:40 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 379 223 km
The Moon is 379 223 km (235 638 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 517 km (252 598 mi).
Moon after ascending node
5 days after ascending node on 18 September 2024 at 19:51 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 2 October 2024 at 11:52 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
5 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 17:04 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠28.695°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2024. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-28.684° at the point of next standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 9 October 2024 at 11:53.
Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 days on 2 October 2024 at 18:49 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.
