Waning
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 47% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 47% and getting smaller. The 22 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 14 September 2055 at 05:14 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 ∠25° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1844"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1844" and ∠1908".
Hunter Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2055 after 21 days on 5 October 2055 at 18:38.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 21 September 2055 at 02:19
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 27 September 2055 at 18:11
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 5 October 2055 at 18:38
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 13 October 2055 at 18:22
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 688 / 1641
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 688 of Meeus index or 1641 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.34 days
Length of current 688 lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 5 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2055. It is 25 minutes shorter than next lunation 689 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 39 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 30 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠336.4°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠336.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠352.8°. 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
5 days after point of apogee on 8 September 2055 at 13:59 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 21 September 2055 at 12:32 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 388 614 km
Moon is 388 614 km (241 474 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 7 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 357 315 km (222 025 mi).
Moon before ascending node
11 days after its descending node on 3 September 2055 at 07:35 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 3 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 17 September 2055 at 19:18 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
24 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
13 days after previous South standstill on 31 August 2055 at 23:31 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-20.442°. Next day the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠20.530° in the next northern standstill on 15 September 2055 at 17:00 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 6 days
After 6 days on 21 September 2055 at 02:19 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.