Waning
Crescent ♊ Gemini
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 52% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 52% and getting smaller. The 22 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 5 September 2072 at 16:19 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 ∠12° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1873"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1873" and ∠1904".
Harvest Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2072 after 21 days on 27 September 2072 at 08:43.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 12 September 2072 at 09:07
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 19 September 2072 at 04:58
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 27 September 2072 at 08:43
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 5 October 2072 at 02:28
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 898 / 1851
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 898 of Meeus index or 1851 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.32 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 46 minutes. It is 1 hour and 2 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 58 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 11 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠350.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠350.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠5.6°.
Moon before apogee
7 days after point of apogee on 29 August 2072 at 00:37 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 12 September 2072 at 01:13 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 382 789 km
The Moon is 382 789 km (237 854 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 388 km (222 071 mi).
Moon before ascending node
7 days after descending node on 28 August 2072 at 23:05 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 11 September 2072 at 16:07 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
21 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
12 days since the previous standstill on 23 August 2072 at 14:36 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.564°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠18.564° at the point of next northern standstill on 7 September 2072 at 06:46 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 12 September 2072 at 09:07 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.
