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
Length of current 478 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 next lunation 479 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 59 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 10 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠319.9°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠319.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠339.4°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after apogee
3 days after point of apogee on 17 September 2038 at 19:15 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 8 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 30 September 2038 at 00:20 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 397 927 km
Moon is 397 927 km (247 260 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 8 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 359 444 km (223 348 mi).
Moon before ascending node
13 days after its descending node on 7 September 2038 at 20:51 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 22 September 2038 at 07:26 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
26 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
13 days after previous South standstill on 8 September 2038 at 03:20 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-23.232°. Next day the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠23.372° in the next northern standstill on 22 September 2038 at 17:24 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 7 days
After 7 days on 28 September 2038 at 18:57 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.