Waning
Crescent ♌ Leo
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 ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 12 October 2036 at 18:09 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 ∠16° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1956"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1956" and ∠1923".
Beaver Moon after 22 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2036 after 22 days on 4 November 2036 at 00:44.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 19 October 2036 at 11:50
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 27 October 2036 at 01:14
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 4 November 2036 at 00:44
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 11 November 2036 at 01:28
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 454 / 1407
The Moon is 21 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 454 of Meeus index or 1407 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.42 days
Length of current 454 lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 58 minutes. It is 2 hours and 26 minutes shorter than next lunation 455 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 46 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 23 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠25.8°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠25.8°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠46.7°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before perigee
11 days after point of apogee on 30 September 2036 at 13:16 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 4 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 16 October 2036 at 12:04 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 366 406 km
Moon is 366 406 km (227 674 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 4 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 365 813 km (227 306 mi).
Moon before ascending node
11 days after its descending node on 30 September 2036 at 17:36 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 2 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 14 October 2036 at 12:21 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
25 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon in northern standstill
At 00:39 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠20.162°. Next 12 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-20.273° in its southern standstill point on 25 October 2036 at 00:51 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 6 days
After 6 days on 19 October 2036 at 11:50 in ♎ Libra, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.