Waning
Crescent ♊ Gemini
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 50% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 50% and getting smaller. The 22 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 18 August 2090 at 11:05 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 ♉ Taurus
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♊ Gemini later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1828"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1828" and ∠1896".
Harvest Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2090 after 21 days on 8 September 2090 at 22:44.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 25 August 2090 at 08:58
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 1 September 2090 at 00:44
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 8 September 2090 at 22:44
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 16 September 2090 at 23:48
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 1120 / 2073
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1120 of Meeus index or 2073 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.32 days
Length of current 1120 lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 40 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2090. It is 24 minutes shorter than next lunation 1121 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 4 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 5 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠331.5°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠331.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠348.5°. 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 after apogee
5 days after point of apogee on 13 August 2090 at 08:23 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 26 August 2090 at 01:13 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 392 105 km
Moon is 392 105 km (243 643 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 7 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 358 032 km (222 471 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after its descending node on 13 August 2090 at 01:17 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 8 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 26 August 2090 at 13:58 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
19 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
11 days after previous South standstill on 6 August 2090 at 13:57 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-18.326°. Next 2 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠18.266° in the next northern standstill on 21 August 2090 at 05:49 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 6 days
After 6 days on 25 August 2090 at 08:58 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.