Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 55% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 21 January 2044 at 23:47 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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♏ Scorpio later.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2044 after 22 days on 13 February 2044 at 06:42.
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 7.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1805" and ∠1950".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 544 of Meeus index or 1497 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 16 minutes and it is 2 hours and 8 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 5 hours and 32 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 31 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 ∠204.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠235.6°.
8 days since point of perigee on 13 January 2044 at 09:08 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 25 January 2044 at 09:32 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 397 104 km (246 749 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 544 km (251 993 mi).
2 days after descending node on 18 January 2044 at 19:49 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 2 February 2044 at 08:49 in ♓ Pisces.
8 days since the last northern standstill on 13 January 2044 at 02:29 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.453° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.503° at the point of next southern standstill on 26 January 2044 at 18:54 in ♐ Sagittarius.
15 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 30 January 2044 at 04:04 in ♒ Aquarius 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