Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 42% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 22 May 2022 at 18:43 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 ∠11° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2022 after 21 days on 14 June 2022 at 11:52.
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 0.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1911" and ∠1895".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 276 of Meeus index or 1229 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 2 minutes and it is 20 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 2 hours and 18 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 45 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 ∠126° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠155.2°.
5 days since point of perigee on 17 May 2022 at 15:23 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 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 2 June 2022 at 01:14 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 375 083 km (233 066 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 191 km (252 395 mi).
7 days after descending node on 15 May 2022 at 23:44 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 29 May 2022 at 02:33 in ♉ Taurus.
4 days since the last southern standstill on 19 May 2022 at 01:21 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.964° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.943° at the point of next northern standstill on 1 June 2022 at 22:32 in ♋ Cancer.
21 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 30 May 2022 at 11:30 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