Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 45% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 9 July 2053 at 01:47 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 ∠23° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2053 after 21 days on 30 July 2053 at 17:06.
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 0.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1892" and ∠1887".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 661 of Meeus index or 1614 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 6 hours and 35 minutes and it is 40 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2053. 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 6 hours and 9 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length and it is the shortest synodic month length of 21st century.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠352.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠7.2°.
8 days since point of apogee on 1 July 2053 at 02:40 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 July 2053 at 07:11 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 378 831 km (235 395 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 527 km (222 157 mi).
2 days after descending node on 6 July 2053 at 19:46 in ♓ Pisces 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 19 July 2053 at 09:41 in ♍ Virgo.
8 days since the last southern standstill on 30 June 2053 at 12:07 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.513° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.467° at the point of next northern standstill on 14 July 2053 at 09:16 in ♋ Cancer.
17 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 15 July 2053 at 17:26 in ♋ Cancer 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