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 2 July 2048 at 23:58 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 2048 after 22 days on 25 July 2048 at 09:34.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunar disc appears visually 2.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1838" and ∠1887".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 599 of Meeus index or 1552 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 14 minutes and it is 1 hour and 19 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 2 hours and 30 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 33 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 ∠186.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠210.3°.
7 days since point of perigee on 25 June 2048 at 09:51 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 8 July 2048 at 03:10 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 390 017 km (242 345 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 968 km (252 257 mi).
6 days after ascending node on 25 June 2048 at 14:10 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 9 July 2048 at 07:58 in ♊ Gemini.
7 days since the last southern standstill on 24 June 2048 at 23:22 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.752° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.746° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 July 2048 at 12:46 in ♊ Gemini.
6 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 11 July 2048 at 04:04 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