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 3 July 2029 at 17:58 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 ∠21° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2029 after 21 days on 25 July 2029 at 13:36.
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 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1887".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 364 of Meeus index or 1317 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 1 minute and it is 1 hour and 56 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 44 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 26 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 ∠244.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠279.1°.
Moon is at apogee at 16:05 about 12 days since last perigee on 22 June 2029 at 15:35 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next perigee on 18 July 2029 at 11:25 in ♎ Libra.
This apogee Moon is 404 317 km (251 231 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 091 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 392 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
8 days after ascending node on 26 June 2029 at 03:09 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 10 July 2029 at 12:33 in ♋ Cancer.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 24 June 2029 at 23:29 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.401° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.399° at the point of next northern standstill on 9 July 2029 at 05:56 in ♊ Gemini.
8 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 11 July 2029 at 15:51 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