Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 49% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 2 October 2037 at 10:29 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 passing about ∠10° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2037 after 21 days on 24 October 2037 at 04:36.
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 ∠1891" and ∠1918".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 466 of Meeus index or 1419 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 9 minutes 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 4 hours and 35 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 34 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 ∠354.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠9.6°.
8 days since point of apogee on 24 September 2037 at 03:44 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 8 October 2037 at 13:04 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 379 120 km (235 574 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 513 km (222 148 mi).
13 days after descending node on 19 September 2037 at 02:02 in ♑ Capricorn 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 3 October 2037 at 15:23 in ♋ Cancer.
At 13:57 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠21.695°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-21.804° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 15 October 2037 at 02:33.
26 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 9 October 2037 at 02:34 in ♎ Libra 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