Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 57% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 12 March 2007 at 03:54 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 ∠13° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2007 after 22 days on 2 April 2007 at 17:15.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 6.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1813" and ∠1931".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 88 of Meeus index or 1041 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 28 minutes and it is 1 hour and 35 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 2 hours and 16 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 53 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 ∠331.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠348.7°.
4 days since point of apogee on 7 March 2007 at 03:37 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 March 2007 at 18:39 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 395 247 km (245 595 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 816 km (222 337 mi).
7 days after descending node on 4 March 2007 at 05:31 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 18 March 2007 at 07:40 in ♓ Pisces.
13 days since the last northern standstill on 25 February 2007 at 23:35 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.600° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-28.608° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 March 2007 at 16:11 in ♐ Sagittarius.
20 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 19 March 2007 at 02:43 in ♓ Pisces 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