Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 52% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 26 May 2019 at 16:33 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 first ∠3° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2019 after 21 days on 17 June 2019 at 08:31.
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 6.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1894".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 239 of Meeus index or 1192 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 16 minutes and it is 2 hours and 2 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 1 hour and 28 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 41 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 ∠263° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠296.1°.
Moon is at apogee at 13:27 about 12 days since last perigee on 13 May 2019 at 21:53 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next perigee on 7 June 2019 at 23:21 in ♌ Leo.
This apogee Moon is 404 134 km (251 117 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest apogee of 2019. It is 1 274 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 83 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
3 days after descending node on 22 May 2019 at 19:12 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 5 June 2019 at 22:46 in ♋ Cancer.
4 days since the last southern standstill on 22 May 2019 at 06:41 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.313° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.361° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 June 2019 at 12:58 in ♋ Cancer.
16 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 3 June 2019 at 10:02 in ♊ Gemini 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