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 20 June 2052 at 03:10 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 about ∠5° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2052 after 21 days on 12 July 2052 at 00:23.
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% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1931" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 648 of Meeus index or 1601 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 1 minute and it is 41 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2052. 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 5 hours and 44 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 25 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 ∠7.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠23.2°.
10 days since point of apogee on 10 June 2052 at 00:46 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 25 June 2052 at 08:22 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 371 145 km (230 619 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 167 km (223 797 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♈ Aries at 22:46 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 3 July 2052 at 14:53 in ♎ Libra.
7 days since the last southern standstill on 12 June 2052 at 20:05 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.514° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.498° at the point of next northern standstill on 26 June 2052 at 04:20 in ♊ Gemini.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 26 June 2052 at 17:50 in ♊ Gemini 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