Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 43% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 9 November 2028 at 21:26 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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2028 after 21 days on 2 December 2028 at 01:40.
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 1.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1959" and ∠1938".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 356 of Meeus index or 1309 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 21 minutes and it is 2 hours and 27 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 23 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 46 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 ∠18.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠37.4°.
12 days since point of apogee on 29 October 2028 at 06:55 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 14 November 2028 at 05:53 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 365 917 km (227 370 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 613 km (225 939 mi).
2 days after descending node on 7 November 2028 at 12:08 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 20 November 2028 at 04:34 in ♑ Capricorn.
4 days since the last northern standstill on 5 November 2028 at 12:08 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.251° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.208° at the point of next southern standstill on 18 November 2028 at 07:22 in ♐ Sagittarius.
17 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 16 November 2028 at 13:18 in ♏ Scorpio 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