Last
Quarter ♈ Aries
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 ♓ Pisces.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 18 June 2025 at 19:19 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 ♓ Pisces
Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1942"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1942" and ∠1888".
Buck Moon after 22 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2025 after 22 days on 10 July 2025 at 20:37.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 25 June 2025 at 10:31
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 2 July 2025 at 19:30
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 10 July 2025 at 20:37
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 18 July 2025 at 00:38
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunation 314 / 1267
The Moon is 21 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 314 of Meeus index or 1267 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.31 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 29 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2025. It is 1 hour and 11 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 15 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 54 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠17.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠17.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠36.2°.
Moon before apogee
11 days after point of apogee on 7 June 2025 at 10:42 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 June 2025 at 04:43 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 369 117 km
The Moon is 369 117 km (229 359 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 178 km (225 668 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♓ Pisces at 09:41 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 12 days later on 1 July 2025 at 03:46 in ♍ Virgo.
New draconic month
At 09:41 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 11 June 2025 at 23:54 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.394°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.402° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 June 2025 at 01:43 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 25 June 2025 at 10:31 in ♋ Cancer 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.
