Waning
Crescent ♉ Taurus
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 50% and getting smaller. The 22 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 2 August 2029 at 11:15 UTC.
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Moon rises at midnight and sets at noon. It is visible to the south in the morning.
Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 6.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1891".
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2029 after 21 days on 24 August 2029 at 01:51.
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.
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 365 of Meeus index or 1318 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 5 minutes. It is 1 hour and 16 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the 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 2 hours and 39 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 30 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠279.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠309.2°.
1 day after point of apogee on 1 August 2029 at 10:42 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 13 August 2029 at 09:55 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 404 842 km (251 557 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 368 km (227 651 mi).
10 days after ascending node on 23 July 2029 at 11:12 in ♑ Capricorn. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 6 August 2029 at 20:21 in ♊ Gemini.
10 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
11 days since the previous standstill on 22 July 2029 at 07:07 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.380°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.323° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 August 2029 at 14:53 in ♊ Gemini.
In 7 days on 10 August 2029 at 01:56 in ♌ Leo 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.