Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 57% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 3 November 2034 at 03:27 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 first ∠2° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2034 after 23 days on 25 November 2034 at 22:32.
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 0.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1920" and ∠1934".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 430 of Meeus index or 1383 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 44 minutes and it is 1 hour and 14 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 5 hours longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 3 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 ∠141.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠168.1°.
5 days since point of perigee on 28 October 2034 at 10:16 in ♉ Taurus 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 12 November 2034 at 09:37 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 373 267 km (231 937 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 644 km (252 677 mi).
8 days after descending node on 24 October 2034 at 18:23 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 6 November 2034 at 10:15 in ♍ Virgo.
2 days since the last northern standstill on 31 October 2034 at 08:54 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.332° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.431° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 November 2034 at 17:11 in ♐ Sagittarius.
23 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 11 November 2034 at 01:16 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