30 August 2024 Current Moon Phase and Planetary Positions for the Southern Hemisphere

Source: MoonGiant.com

You can use this link to go forward or backward in time for Moon phase information. If you are curious, you can even find out what phase the Moon was in when you or anyone else was born.

The 8 Lunar Phases

There are 8 lunar phases the Moon goes through in its 29.53 days lunar cycle. The 4 major Moon phases are Full Moon, New Moon, First Quarter and Last Quarter. Between these major phases, there are 4 minor ones: the Waxing Crescent, Waxing Gibbous, Waning Gibbous and Waning Crescent. For more info on the Moon Cycle and on each phase check out Wikipedia Lunar Phase page.

Useful Moon Resources

Check the weather before a night of Moon gazing at weather.com

For a list of all the current meteor showers visit American Meteor Society

The Moon’s current phase for today and tonight is a Waning Crescent phase. This phase is best viewed just before the sunrise in the western sky. In this phase the Moon’s illumination is growing smaller each day until the New Moon. During this part of the Moon cycle, the Moon is getting closer to the Sun as viewed from Earth and the night side of the Moon is facing the Earth with only a small edge of the Moon being illuminated. It can also be a great time to see the features of the Moon’s surface. Along the edge where the illuminated portion meets the dark side, the craters and mountains cast long shadows making them easier to observe with a telescope or binoculars.

Visit the August 2024 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Waning Crescent Phase

The Waning Crescent on August 30 has an illumination of 12%. This is the percentage of the Moon illuminated by the Sun. The illumination is constantly changing and can vary up to 10% a day. On August 30 the Moon is 26.21 days old. This refers to how many days it has been since the last New Moon. It takes 29.53 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth and go through the lunar cycle of all 8 Moon phases.

Phase Details

Phase: Waning Crescent
Illumination: 12%
Moon Age: 26.21 days
Moon Angle: 0.51
Moon Distance: 391,046.54 km
Sun Angle: 0.53
Sun Distance: 151,004,682.06 km

Source: currentplanetarypositions.com

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

30 August 2024
02:00 am GMT 12:00 PM BST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:07 Virgo 12
Moon:22 Cancer 04
Mercury:21 Leo 30
Venus:00 Libra 39
Mars:26 Gemini 29
Jupiter:18 Gemini 48
Saturn:16 Pisces 43 Rx
Uranus:27 Taurus 15
Neptune:29 Pisces 06 Rx
Pluto:00 Aquarius 03 Rx

True Lunar Node:06 Aries 59 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:08 Aries 04 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):06 Libra 50

Chiron:23 Aries 02 Rx
Ceres:07 Capricorn 32
Pallas:27 Scorpio 24
Juno:06 Libra 56
Vesta:02 Virgo 24

Eris:25 Aries 22 Rx

Fire:5
Earth:4
Air:6
Water:4
Cardinal:9
Fixed:4
Mutable:6

Cape Town, South Africa

30 August 2024
10:00 am GMT 12:00 PM SAST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:07 Virgo 31
Moon:26 Cancer 16
Mercury:21 Leo 34
Venus:01 Libra 03
Mars:26 Gemini 42
Jupiter:18 Gemini 50
Saturn:16 Pisces 42 Rx
Uranus:27 Taurus 15
Neptune:29 Pisces 06 Rx
Pluto:00 Aquarius 03 Rx

True Lunar Node:06 Aries 57 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:08 Aries 02 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):06 Libra 52

Chiron:23 Aries 01 Rx
Ceres:07 Capricorn 32
Pallas:27 Scorpio 29
Juno:07 Libra 03
Vesta:02 Virgo 34

Eris:25 Aries 22 Rx

Fire:5
Earth:4
Air:6
Water:4
Cardinal:9
Fixed:4
Mutable:6

Easter Island, Chile

30 August 2024
06:00 pm GMT 12:00 PM EAST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:07 Virgo 51
Moon:00 Leo 27
Mercury:21 Leo 39
Venus:01 Libra 28
Mars:26 Gemini 54
Jupiter:18 Gemini 53
Saturn:16 Pisces 40 Rx
Uranus:27 Taurus 15
Neptune:29 Pisces 05 Rx
Pluto:00 Aquarius 02 Rx

True Lunar Node:06 Aries 56 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:08 Aries 01 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):06 Libra 54

Chiron:23 Aries 01 Rx
Ceres:07 Capricorn 33
Pallas:27 Scorpio 35
Juno:07 Libra 10
Vesta:02 Virgo 43

Eris:25 Aries 22 Rx

Fire:6
Earth:4
Air:6
Water:3
Cardinal:8
Fixed:5
Mutable:6