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 5 June 2037 at 22:49 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 ∠22° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2037 after 21 days on 27 June 2037 at 15:20.
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 6.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1891".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 462 of Meeus index or 1415 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 16 minutes and it is 1 hour and 54 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 1 hour and 28 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 41 minutes 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 ∠258.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠292.3°.
Moon is at apogee at 01:22 about 12 days since last perigee on 24 May 2037 at 14:45 in ♍ Virgo 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 18 June 2037 at 16:37 in ♌ Leo.
This apogee Moon is 404 141 km (251 122 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest apogee of 2037. It is 1 267 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 90 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
4 days after descending node on 2 June 2037 at 03:23 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 16 June 2037 at 07:41 in ♋ Cancer.
5 days since the last southern standstill on 31 May 2037 at 16:34 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.325° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.359° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 June 2037 at 01:37 in ♋ Cancer.
17 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 13 June 2037 at 17:10 in ♊ Gemini 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