Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 55% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 30 March 2027 at 00:54 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 ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2027 after 22 days on 20 April 2027 at 22:27.
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 8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1774" and ∠1922".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 336 of Meeus index or 1289 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 22 minutes and it is 3 hours and 15 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 38 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 25 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 ∠242.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠278.5°.
10 days since point of perigee on 19 March 2027 at 04:31 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 31 March 2027 at 01:33 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 404 154 km (251 130 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 331 km (251 240 mi).
9 days after descending node on 19 March 2027 at 13:05 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 2 April 2027 at 10:17 in ♒ Aquarius.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 28 March 2027 at 17:43 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.526° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.412° at the point of next northern standstill on 11 April 2027 at 19:29 in ♊ Gemini.
23 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 6 April 2027 at 23:51 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