Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 51% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 17 August 2052 at 14:43 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 ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2052 after 22 days on 9 September 2052 at 00:15.
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 3.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1896".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 650 of Meeus index or 1603 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 36 minutes and it is 2 hours and 50 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 3 hours and 8 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 1 minute 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 ∠43° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠69.9°.
13 days since point of apogee on 4 August 2052 at 05:18 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 August 2052 at 04:12 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 363 621 km (225 944 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 240 km (229 435 mi).
3 days after descending node on 14 August 2052 at 01:39 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 27 August 2052 at 00:15 in ♎ Libra.
10 days since the last southern standstill on 6 August 2052 at 12:41 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.346° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.268° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 August 2052 at 22:30 in ♊ Gemini.
17 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 24 August 2052 at 11:07 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