Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 48% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 22 April 2014 at 07:52 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 ∠5° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2014 after 22 days on 14 May 2014 at 19:16.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunar disc appears visually 3.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1908".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 176 of Meeus index or 1129 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 30 minutes and it is 56 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 1 hour and 14 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 55 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 ∠46.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠76.9°.
13 days since point of apogee on 8 April 2014 at 14:52 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 April 2014 at 00:27 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 363 302 km (225 745 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 765 km (229 761 mi).
6 days after ascending node on 15 April 2014 at 13:22 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 28 April 2014 at 11:36 in ♈ Aries.
2 days since the last southern standstill on 19 April 2014 at 12:55 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.946° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.961° at the point of next northern standstill on 2 May 2014 at 15:59 in ♊ Gemini.
6 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 29 April 2014 at 06:14 in ♉ Taurus 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