Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 47% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 28 September 2040 at 04:41 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 2040 after 21 days on 20 October 2040 at 04:50.
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 7.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1775" and ∠1916".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 503 of Meeus index or 1456 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 12 minutes and it is 42 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 longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 35 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 ∠226.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠261.6°.
10 days since point of perigee on 18 September 2040 at 06:43 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 30 September 2040 at 02:50 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 403 910 km (250 978 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 658 km (251 443 mi).
3 days after ascending node on 24 September 2040 at 23:04 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 9 October 2040 at 08:33 in ♏ Scorpio.
At 10:20 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠26.630°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-26.728° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 12 October 2040 at 12:03.
3 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 6 October 2040 at 05:26 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