Last
Quarter ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 52% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 52% and getting smaller. The 22 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 21 September 2038 at 16:27 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 ∠3° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1801"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1801" and ∠1912".
Hunter Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2038 after 21 days on 13 October 2038 at 04:22.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 28 September 2038 at 18:57
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 5 October 2038 at 09:52
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 13 October 2038 at 04:22
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 21 October 2038 at 08:23
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 478 / 1431
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 478 of Meeus index or 1431 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.36 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 45 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2038. It is 10 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 3 hours and 59 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 10 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠319.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠319.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠339.4°.
Moon after apogee
3 days after point of apogee on 17 September 2038 at 19:15 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 30 September 2038 at 00:20 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 397 927 km
The Moon is 397 927 km (247 260 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 444 km (223 348 mi).
Moon before ascending node
13 days after descending node on 7 September 2038 at 20:51 in ♑ Capricorn. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 22 September 2038 at 07:26 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
26 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
13 days since the previous standstill on 8 September 2038 at 03:20 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.232°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠23.372° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 September 2038 at 17:24 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 28 September 2038 at 18:57 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.
