Waning
Crescent ♊ Gemini
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 51% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 51% and getting smaller. The 22 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 31 August 2067 at 14:04 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 ∠7° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1834"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1834" and ∠1901".
Harvest Moon after 22 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2067 after 22 days on 23 September 2067 at 00:54.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 8 September 2067 at 18:09
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 16 September 2067 at 10:20
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 23 September 2067 at 00:54
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 30 September 2067 at 06:01
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 836 / 1789
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 836 of Meeus index or 1789 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.65 days
Length of current 836 lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 32 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2067. It is 13 minutes longer than next lunation 837 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 48 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 15 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠183°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠183°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠207.1°. 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 before apogee
7 days after point of perigee on 24 August 2067 at 03:23 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 5 September 2067 at 23:25 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 390 876 km
Moon is 390 876 km (242 879 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 5 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 157 km (252 374 mi).
Moon before descending node
11 days after its ascending node on 19 August 2067 at 17:42 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 1 September 2067 at 06:54 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
11 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
11 days after previous South standstill on 19 August 2067 at 18:29 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-22.875°. Next day the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠22.778° in the next northern standstill on 1 September 2067 at 09:55 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 8 days
After 8 days on 8 September 2067 at 18:09 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.