Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 42% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 23 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 21 September 2038 at 16:27 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 about ∠9° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2038 after 20 days on 13 October 2038 at 04:22.
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 5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1819" and ∠1912".
The Moon is 23 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 478 of Meeus index or 1431 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 45 minutes and it is 10 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2038. 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 3 hours and 59 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 10 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 ∠319.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠339.4°.
4 days since point of apogee on 17 September 2038 at 19:15 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 30 September 2038 at 00:20 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 393 963 km (244 797 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 444 km (223 348 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♋ Cancer at 07:26 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next descending node later on 4 October 2038 at 21:28 in ♐ Sagittarius.
At 17:24 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠23.372°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-23.486° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 5 October 2038 at 08:40.
At 07:26 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 6 days on 28 September 2038 at 18:57 in ♍ Virgo 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