Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 48% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 20 August 2049 at 07:10 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 ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2049 after 22 days on 11 September 2049 at 17:04.
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 4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1823" and ∠1897".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 613 of Meeus index or 1566 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 11 minutes and it is 25 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 27 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 36 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 ∠185.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠210.2°.
7 days since point of perigee on 12 August 2049 at 17:06 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 25 August 2049 at 10:27 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 393 232 km (244 343 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 054 km (252 310 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♉ Taurus at 22:31 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 4 September 2049 at 10:20 in ♐ Sagittarius.
11 days since the last southern standstill on 9 August 2049 at 04:55 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.891° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠21.800° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 August 2049 at 00:08 in ♊ Gemini.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 28 August 2049 at 11:18 in ♍ Virgo 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