Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 42% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 8 January 2037 at 18:29 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 ∠1° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♏ Scorpio later.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2037 after 22 days on 31 January 2037 at 14:04.
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% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1924" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 457 of Meeus index or 1410 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 1 minute and it is 1 hour and 20 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 and 16 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 47 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 ∠113° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠146.7°.
5 days since point of perigee on 3 January 2037 at 21:29 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 19 January 2037 at 17:43 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 372 639 km (231 547 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 033 km (252 297 mi).
5 days after ascending node on 3 January 2037 at 20:54 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 17 January 2037 at 08:20 in ♒ Aquarius.
7 days since the last northern standstill on 2 January 2037 at 00:56 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.593° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-20.586° at the point of next southern standstill on 15 January 2037 at 03:02 in ♑ Capricorn.
5 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 6 days on 16 January 2037 at 09:34 in ♑ Capricorn 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