Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 43% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 12 November 2006 at 17:45 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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2006 after 21 days on 5 December 2006 at 00:25.
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 8.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1784" and ∠1939".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 84 of Meeus index or 1037 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 4 minutes and it is 1 hour and 21 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 4 hours and 20 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 43 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 ∠207.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠238.7°.
9 days since point of perigee on 3 November 2006 at 23:50 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 15 November 2006 at 23:20 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 401 752 km (249 637 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 193 km (251 775 mi).
11 days after ascending node on 2 November 2006 at 06:55 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 15 November 2006 at 13:25 in ♍ Virgo.
4 days since the last northern standstill on 8 November 2006 at 17:58 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.531° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.442° at the point of next southern standstill on 23 November 2006 at 07:12 in ♐ Sagittarius.
11 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 20 November 2006 at 22:18 in ♏ Scorpio 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