Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 45% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 25 February 2030 at 01:58 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 ∠12° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2030 after 22 days on 19 March 2030 at 17:56.
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 1.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1966" and ∠1938".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 372 of Meeus index or 1325 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 27 minutes and it is 1 hour and 1 minute 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 1 hour and 43 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 20 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 ∠67.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠104.1°.
3 days since point of perigee on 22 February 2030 at 10:01 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 10 March 2030 at 02:23 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 364 641 km (226 577 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 748 km (251 499 mi).
12 days after descending node on 13 February 2030 at 04:07 in ♊ Gemini 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 26 February 2030 at 05:23 in ♐ Sagittarius.
At 22:24 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-23.278°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠23.130° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 12 March 2030 at 01:51.
26 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 4 March 2030 at 06:35 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