Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 51% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 18 April 2036 at 14:06 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 leaving the last ∠2° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2036 after 21 days on 10 May 2036 at 08:09.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunar disc appears visually 7.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1910".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 448 of Meeus index or 1401 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 36 minutes and it is 2 hours and 52 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 8 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 1 minute 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 ∠258.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠292.8°.
Moon is at apogee at 17:40 about 12 days since last perigee on 6 April 2036 at 09:36 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next perigee on 1 May 2036 at 08:26 in ♋ Cancer.
This apogee Moon is 404 135 km (251 118 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest apogee of 2036. It is 1 273 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 84 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
11 days after ascending node on 6 April 2036 at 19:59 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 20 April 2036 at 16:14 in ♒ Aquarius.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 16 April 2036 at 20:29 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.540° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.658° at the point of next northern standstill on 30 April 2036 at 19:06 in ♋ Cancer.
11 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 26 April 2036 at 09:33 in ♉ Taurus 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