Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 47% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 25 March 2022 at 05:37 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 ∠8° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2022 after 22 days on 16 April 2022 at 18:55.
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 2.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1924".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 274 of Meeus index or 1227 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 50 minutes and it is 1 hour and 14 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 6 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 57 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 ∠56.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠89.8°.
1 day since point of perigee on 23 March 2022 at 23:28 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 7 April 2022 at 19:11 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 363 596 km (225 928 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 13 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 438 km (251 306 mi).
3 days after descending node on 22 March 2022 at 08:12 in ♏ Scorpio 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 4 April 2022 at 13:05 in ♉ Taurus.
At 11:58 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-26.787°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠26.880° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 8 April 2022 at 08:15.
17 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 1 April 2022 at 06:24 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