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 12 October 2047 at 04:22 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 ∠10° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2047 after 22 days on 2 November 2047 at 16:58.
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 6.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1809" and ∠1922".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 590 of Meeus index or 1543 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 57 minutes and it is 34 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2047. 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 48 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 22 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 ∠329.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠346.8°.
4 days since point of apogee on 7 October 2047 at 08:53 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 October 2047 at 21:58 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 396 294 km (246 246 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 956 km (222 424 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♋ Cancer at 12:21 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 24 October 2047 at 02:50 in ♑ Capricorn.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 9 October 2047 at 18:12 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.802° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.711° at the point of next southern standstill on 22 October 2047 at 17:18 in ♐ Sagittarius.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 19 October 2047 at 03:28 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