Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 48% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 7 March 2029 at 07:52 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 ∠19° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2029 after 22 days on 30 March 2029 at 02:26.
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 1.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1909" and ∠1933".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 360 of Meeus index or 1313 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 48 minutes and it is 27 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2029. 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 5 hours and 4 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 59 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 ∠136.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠164.5°.
5 days since point of perigee on 1 March 2029 at 18:30 in ♍ Virgo 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 16 March 2029 at 21:33 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 375 498 km (233 324 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 528 km (252 605 mi).
10 days after descending node on 24 February 2029 at 16:44 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 9 March 2029 at 05:00 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 11:58 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-24.921°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠24.763° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 22 March 2029 at 05:25.
25 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 7 days on 15 March 2029 at 04:19 in ♓ Pisces 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