Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 46% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 21 June 2041 at 03:12 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 ∠5° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2041 after 22 days on 13 July 2041 at 19:01.
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 3.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1955" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 512 of Meeus index or 1465 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 21 minutes and it is 1 hour and 24 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 23 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 46 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 ∠88.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠123.4°.
4 days since point of perigee on 17 June 2041 at 11:48 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 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 3 July 2041 at 06:46 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 366 583 km (227 784 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 266 km (251 821 mi).
9 days after descending node on 11 June 2041 at 14:42 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 24 June 2041 at 08:57 in ♉ Taurus.
6 days since the last southern standstill on 15 June 2041 at 09:11 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.308° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.286° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 June 2041 at 10:46 in ♋ Cancer.
24 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 28 June 2041 at 11:17 in ♋ Cancer 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