Last
Quarter ♊ Gemini
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 54% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 54% and getting smaller. The 21 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 2 September 2037 at 22:03 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 passing about ∠5° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1834"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1834" and ∠1902".
Harvest Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2037 after 21 days on 24 September 2037 at 11:32.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 9 September 2037 at 18:25
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 16 September 2037 at 10:36
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 24 September 2037 at 11:32
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 2 October 2037 at 10:29
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 465 / 1418
The Moon is 21 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 465 of Meeus index or 1418 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.32 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 44 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2037. It is 25 minutes shorter 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 5 hours shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 9 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠338.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠338.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠354.5°.
Moon after apogee
5 days after point of apogee on 28 August 2037 at 00:28 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 September 2037 at 02:13 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 390 802 km
The Moon is 390 802 km (242 833 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 229 km (221 972 mi).
Moon before ascending node
10 days after descending node on 22 August 2037 at 23:10 in ♑ Capricorn. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 6 September 2037 at 10:34 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
23 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 21 August 2037 at 14:16 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.390°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.473° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 September 2037 at 06:20 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 9 September 2037 at 18:25 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.
