Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 51% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 1 August 2048 at 14:30 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 ∠9° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2048 after 22 days on 23 August 2048 at 18:07.
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 5.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1793" and ∠1891".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 600 of Meeus index or 1553 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 55 minutes and it is 1 hour and 29 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 1 hour and 11 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 52 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 ∠210.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠240.4°.
8 days since point of perigee on 23 July 2048 at 16:18 in ♑ Capricorn 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 4 August 2048 at 17:05 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 399 737 km (248 385 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 004 km (251 658 mi).
9 days after ascending node on 22 July 2048 at 23:38 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 5 August 2048 at 13:07 in ♊ Gemini.
10 days since the last southern standstill on 22 July 2048 at 09:07 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.710° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.656° at the point of next northern standstill on 4 August 2048 at 20:01 in ♊ Gemini.
9 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 9 August 2048 at 17:59 in ♌ Leo 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