Last Quarter Moon
Last Quarter MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Last Quarter in Gemini

Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 53% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.

* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 9 September 2058 at 18:07 UTC.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises at midnight and sets at noon. It is visible to the south in the morning.

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♊ Gemini

Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.

Hunter Moon after 22 days

Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2058 after 22 days on 2 October 2058 at 01:36.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1814"

Lunar disc appears visually 4.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1814" and ∠1905".

Lunation 725 / 1678

The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 725 of Meeus index or 1678 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.63 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 14 minutes and it is 27 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit 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 30 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 33 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠196°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠196° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠223°.

Moon before apogee

7 days since point of perigee on 1 September 2058 at 14:39 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 13 September 2058 at 22:43 in ♌ Leo.

Distance to Moon 395 095 km

The Moon is 395 095 km (245 501 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 674 km (252 074 mi).

Moon in ascending node

Moon is in ascending node in ♊ Gemini at 03:37 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next descending node later on 23 September 2058 at 15:09 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Moon before northern standstill

10 days since the last southern standstill on 29 August 2058 at 15:55 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.493° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.586° at the point of next northern standstill on 11 September 2058 at 14:56 in ♋ Cancer.

New draconic month

At 03:37 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.

Syzygy in 8 days

In 8 days on 17 September 2058 at 22:17 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov