Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 46% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 8 September 2050 at 02:51 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 ∠21° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2050 after 22 days on 30 September 2050 at 17:31.
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 2.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1861" and ∠1905".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 626 of Meeus index or 1579 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 2 minutes and it is 57 minutes shorter 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 3 hours and 18 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 45 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 ∠163.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠186.6°.
6 days since point of perigee on 1 September 2050 at 14:03 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 15 September 2050 at 09:55 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 385 170 km (239 334 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 591 km (252 644 mi).
2 days after descending node on 5 September 2050 at 17:45 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 20 September 2050 at 06:06 in ♏ Scorpio.
At 11:34 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠20.027°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-19.906° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 23 September 2050 at 06:36.
15 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 16 September 2050 at 03:49 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