Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 54% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 24 April 2049 at 21:11 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 first ∠0° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2049 after 22 days on 17 May 2049 at 11:13.
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 3.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1907".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 609 of Meeus index or 1562 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 32 minutes and it is 1 hour and 17 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 12 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 57 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 ∠67° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠102.4°.
2 days since point of perigee on 22 April 2049 at 11:15 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 13 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 7 May 2049 at 22:34 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 363 552 km (225 901 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 13 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 657 km (251 442 mi).
3 days after ascending node on 20 April 2049 at 23:57 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 4 May 2049 at 04:33 in ♊ Gemini.
2 days since the last southern standstill on 21 April 2049 at 13:59 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.138° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.094° at the point of next northern standstill on 4 May 2049 at 21:27 in ♊ Gemini.
3 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 7 days on 2 May 2049 at 00:11 in ♉ Taurus 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