Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 53% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 20 February 2044 at 20:20 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 ∠2° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♐ Sagittarius later.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2044 after 22 days on 13 March 2044 at 19:41.
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 8.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1775" and ∠1940".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 545 of Meeus index or 1498 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 8 minutes and it is 2 hours and 54 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 3 hours and 24 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 39 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 ∠235.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠272.5°.
10 days since point of perigee on 10 February 2044 at 10:42 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 day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 22 February 2044 at 05:18 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 403 819 km (250 921 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 628 km (251 424 mi).
5 days after descending node on 15 February 2044 at 03:48 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 29 February 2044 at 14:57 in ♓ Pisces.
11 days since the last northern standstill on 9 February 2044 at 10:49 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.576° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.625° at the point of next southern standstill on 23 February 2044 at 02:17 in ♐ Sagittarius.
18 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 28 February 2044 at 20:12 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