Waning
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 42% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 42% and getting smaller. The 23 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 12 September 2093 at 15:15 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 is entering ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1777"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1777" and ∠1908".
Hunter Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2093 after 21 days on 4 October 2093 at 18:18.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 20 September 2093 at 18:16
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 27 September 2093 at 23:39
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 4 October 2093 at 18:18
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 12 October 2093 at 10:10
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 1158 / 2111
The Moon is 23 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1158 of Meeus index or 2111 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.6 days
Length of current 1158 lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 23 minutes. It is 1 hour and 6 minutes longer than next lunation 1159 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 39 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 24 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠215.5°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠215.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠247.8°. 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
10 days after point of perigee on 3 September 2093 at 09:46 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next apogee on 15 September 2093 at 07:53 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 403 396 km
Moon is 403 396 km (250 659 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next day until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 825 km (251 547 mi).
Moon before ascending node
11 days after its descending node on 2 September 2093 at 01:36 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 15 September 2093 at 11:15 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
25 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
12 days after previous South standstill on 1 September 2093 at 03:48 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-21.745°. Next day the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠21.823° in the next northern standstill on 14 September 2093 at 09:50 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 7 days
After 7 days on 20 September 2093 at 18:16 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.