Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 43% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 5 March 2051 at 19:47 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 ∠24° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2051 after 20 days on 27 March 2051 at 09:00.
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 4.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1849" and ∠1934".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 632 of Meeus index or 1585 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 11 minutes and it is 1 hour and 4 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 33 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 36 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 ∠334.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠351.3°.
6 days since point of apogee on 28 February 2051 at 09:20 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 13 March 2051 at 05:02 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 387 661 km (240 881 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 407 km (222 082 mi).
4 days after ascending node on 2 March 2051 at 09:34 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 15 March 2051 at 09:57 in ♉ Taurus.
At 08:27 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-19.338°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠19.258° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 18 March 2051 at 21:07.
4 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 12 March 2051 at 16:52 in ♓ Pisces 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