Waning
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 49% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 49% and getting smaller. The 22 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 18 September 2068 at 10:16 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 ∠1874"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1874" and ∠1910".
Hunter Moon after 22 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2068 after 22 days on 11 October 2068 at 01:39.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 26 September 2068 at 10:48
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 4 October 2068 at 10:23
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 11 October 2068 at 01:39
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 18 October 2068 at 00:00
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 849 / 1802
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 849 of Meeus index or 1802 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.68 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 20 minutes. It is 1 hour and 9 minutes shorter 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 3 hours and 36 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 27 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠160.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠160.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠183.9°.
Moon after perigee
6 days after point of perigee on 12 September 2068 at 00:17 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 26 September 2068 at 00:00 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 382 575 km
The Moon is 382 575 km (237 721 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 613 km (252 658 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after descending node on 16 September 2068 at 02:30 in ♉ Taurus. 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 30 September 2068 at 14:29 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
14 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 17 September 2068 at 21:08 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.889°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 14 days to face maximum declination of ∠-20.769° at the point of next southern standstill on 2 October 2068 at 15:38 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 26 September 2068 at 10:48 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.
