Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 58% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 25 September 2005 at 06:41 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 ∠23° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2005 after 23 days on 17 October 2005 at 12:14.
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 5.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1809" and ∠1913".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 70 of Meeus index or 1023 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 42 minutes and it is 45 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2005. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 58 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 5 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠205.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠236.1°.
7 days since point of perigee on 16 September 2005 at 13:58 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 28 September 2005 at 15:20 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 396 197 km (246 185 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 307 km (251 846 mi).
5 days after ascending node on 19 September 2005 at 08:09 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 3 October 2005 at 16:51 in ♎ Libra.
12 days since the last southern standstill on 12 September 2005 at 10:54 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.556° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠28.594° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 September 2005 at 06:42 in ♋ Cancer.
5 days 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 8 days on 3 October 2005 at 10:28 in ♎ Libra 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