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 15 September 2052 at 19:48 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 ∠19° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2052 after 22 days on 8 October 2052 at 10:54.
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 3.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1909".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 651 of Meeus index or 1604 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 26 minutes and it is 3 hours and 5 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 18 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 51 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 ∠69.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠104.4°.
2 days since point of perigee on 13 September 2052 at 06:22 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 13 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 28 September 2052 at 19:24 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 363 660 km (225 968 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 13 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 888 km (251 586 mi).
5 days after descending node on 10 September 2052 at 07:41 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 23 September 2052 at 08:07 in ♎ Libra.
12 days since the last southern standstill on 2 September 2052 at 21:23 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.203° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠18.163° at the point of next northern standstill on 16 September 2052 at 04:17 in ♊ Gemini.
19 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 7 days on 22 September 2052 at 23:32 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