Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 57% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 16 February 2039 at 02:36 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 ∠19° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2039 after 23 days on 10 March 2039 at 16:35.
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 1.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1942".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 483 of Meeus index or 1436 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 41 minutes and it is 1 hour and 1 minute 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 57 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 6 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 ∠51.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠83.5°.
Moon is at perigee at 17:30 about 13 days since last apogee on 2 February 2039 at 01:38 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next apogee on 1 March 2039 at 22:42 in ♉ Taurus.
This perigee Moon is 370 230 km (230 050 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest perigee of 2039. It is 7 722 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 126 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
10 days after ascending node on 5 February 2039 at 05:55 in ♋ Cancer 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 18 February 2039 at 09:34 in ♐ Sagittarius.
9 days since the last northern standstill on 6 February 2039 at 03:54 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.931° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.002° at the point of next southern standstill on 19 February 2039 at 06:19 in ♑ Capricorn.
10 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 23 February 2039 at 03:18 in ♓ Pisces 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