Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 49% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 8 August 2042 at 10:35 UTC.
The moon rises at midnight and sets at noon. It is visible to the south in the morning.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠17° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2042 after 22 days on 31 August 2042 at 02:02.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 3.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1959" and ∠1893".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 526 of Meeus index or 1479 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 9 minutes and it is 2 hours and 40 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 35 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 34 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠88.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠123.3°.
3 days since point of perigee on 4 August 2042 at 18:09 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 20 August 2042 at 13:59 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 365 868 km (227 340 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 193 km (251 775 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 6 August 2042 at 14:42 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 20 August 2042 at 09:13 in ♎ Libra.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 30 July 2042 at 02:39 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.160° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.226° at the point of next northern standstill on 11 August 2042 at 21:49 in ♊ Gemini.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 15 August 2042 at 18:01 in ♌ Leo 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.
Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com
Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov
