Last
Quarter* ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 56% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 56% and getting smaller. The 21 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 26 September 2081 at 01:30 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 ∠4° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1883"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1883" and ∠1914".
Hunter Moon after 22 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2081 after 22 days on 17 October 2081 at 20:50.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 26 September 2081 at 01:30
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 2 October 2081 at 17:23
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 9 October 2081 at 15:58
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 17 October 2081 at 20:50
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 1010 / 1963
The Moon is 21 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1010 of Meeus index or 1963 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.35 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 22 minutes. It is 1 hour and 19 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 22 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 47 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠357.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠357.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠12.5°.
Moon before apogee
8 days after point of apogee on 17 September 2081 at 08:20 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 1 October 2081 at 23:44 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 380 559 km
The Moon is 380 559 km (236 468 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 089 km (222 506 mi).
Moon before descending node
8 days after ascending node on 17 September 2081 at 06:18 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 1 October 2081 at 01:46 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
8 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 14:31 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠28.512°. Over the next 12 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-28.464° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 8 October 2081 at 03:37.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 2 October 2081 at 17:23 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.
