Crescent ♈ AriesMoon phase on 30 June 2013 Sunday is Last Quarter, 22 days old Moon is in Aries. Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinLast Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 47% and getting smaller. The 22 days old Moon is in ♈ Aries. * The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 30 June 2013 at 04:54 UTC. Moon rises at midnight and sets at noon. It is visible to the south in the morning. Moon is passing about ∠12° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector. Lunar disc appears visually 1.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1853" and ∠1887". Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2013 after 22 days on 22 July 2013 at 18:15. 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. The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 166 of Meeus index or 1119 from Brown series. Length of current 166 lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 18 minutes. It is 42 minutes longer than next lunation 167 length. Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 34 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 29 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest. This lunation true anomaly is ∠168.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠191.6°. 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°). 7 days after point of perigee on 23 June 2013 at 11:09 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 6 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 7 July 2013 at 00:36 in ♋ Cancer. Moon is 386 857 km (240 382 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 6 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 493 km (252 583 mi). 10 days after its ascending node on 20 June 2013 at 09:51 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 2 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 3 July 2013 at 04:15 in ♉ Taurus. 10 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it. 7 days after previous South standstill on 22 June 2013 at 16:11 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-20.186°. Next 5 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠20.170° in the next northern standstill on 6 July 2013 at 02:09 in ♊ Gemini. After 7 days on 8 July 2013 at 07:14 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.