Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 50% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 22 March 2025 at 11:30 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 ∠2° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2025 after 21 days on 13 April 2025 at 00:22.
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 5.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1822" and ∠1925".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 311 of Meeus index or 1264 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 13 minutes and it is 1 hour and 40 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 2 hours and 31 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 38 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 ∠329.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠346.9°.
4 days since point of apogee on 17 March 2025 at 16:37 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 30 March 2025 at 05:26 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 393 297 km (244 383 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 127 km (222 530 mi).
7 days after descending node on 14 March 2025 at 13:45 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 28 March 2025 at 16:29 in ♓ Pisces.
At 06:47 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.719°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2025. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.696° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 3 April 2025 at 22:15.
21 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 29 March 2025 at 10:58 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