Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 49% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 4 April 2021 at 10:02 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 ∠16° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2021 after 22 days on 27 April 2021 at 03:31.
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 0.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1926" and ∠1918".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 262 of Meeus index or 1215 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 10 minutes and it is 19 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 3 hours and 26 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 37 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 ∠124.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠154.8°.
5 days since point of perigee on 30 March 2021 at 06:12 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 14 April 2021 at 17:47 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 372 143 km (231 239 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 120 km (252 351 mi).
2 days after descending node on 2 April 2021 at 02:41 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 16 April 2021 at 05:53 in ♊ Gemini.
At 02:08 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-25.412°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠25.532° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 18 April 2021 at 16:02.
15 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 12 April 2021 at 02:31 in ♈ Aries 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