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 23 January 2052 at 21:03 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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♏ Scorpio later.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2052 after 22 days on 14 February 2052 at 18:21.
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 9.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1949".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 643 of Meeus index or 1596 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 25 minutes and it is 2 hours and 19 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 41 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 22 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 ∠248.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠285.5°.
10 days since point of perigee on 12 January 2052 at 14:41 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 24 January 2052 at 12:51 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 404 922 km (251 607 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 327 km (251 237 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 22 January 2052 at 12:23 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 5 February 2052 at 10:04 in ♈ Aries.
9 days since the last northern standstill on 14 January 2052 at 01:12 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.725° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.646° at the point of next southern standstill on 28 January 2052 at 05:17 in ♐ Sagittarius.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 31 January 2052 at 18:30 in ♒ Aquarius 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