Last
Quarter ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 55% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 55% and getting smaller. The 21 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 18 September 2049 at 23:03 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 ∠21° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1798"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1798" and ∠1910".
Hunter Moon after 22 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2049 after 22 days on 11 October 2049 at 02:53.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 27 September 2049 at 02:05
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 4 October 2049 at 09:39
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 11 October 2049 at 02:53
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 18 October 2049 at 17:55
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 614 / 1567
The Moon is 21 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 614 of Meeus index or 1567 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.62 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 46 minutes. It is 36 minutes longer 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 2 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 1 minute shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠210.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠210.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠241.4°.
Moon before perigee
8 days after point of perigee on 10 September 2049 at 00:14 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 22 September 2049 at 00:05 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 398 737 km
The Moon is 398 737 km (247 764 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 133 km (251 738 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 17 September 2049 at 00:51 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 1 October 2049 at 11:18 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
14 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 07:37 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠21.544°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-21.422° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 2 October 2049 at 17:46.
Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 days on 27 September 2049 at 02:05 in ♎ Libra 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.
