Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 54% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 14 July 2028 at 20:57 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 ∠18° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2028 after 21 days on 5 August 2028 at 08:10.
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunar disc appears visually 5.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1785" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 352 of Meeus index or 1305 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 34 minutes and it is 52 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 4 hours and 10 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 59 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 ∠308.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠330.4°.
2 days since point of apogee on 11 July 2028 at 22:26 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 July 2028 at 22:14 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 401 565 km (249 521 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 633 km (224 708 mi).
7 days after ascending node on 7 July 2028 at 09:34 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 21 July 2028 at 16:09 in ♋ Cancer.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 4 July 2028 at 18:46 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.933° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.940° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 July 2028 at 07:49 in ♊ Gemini.
7 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 22 July 2028 at 03:02 in ♋ Cancer 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