Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 49% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 7 August 2053 at 10:25 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 ∠16° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2053 after 21 days on 29 August 2053 at 07:53.
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 1.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1925" and ∠1892".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 662 of Meeus index or 1615 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 15 minutes and it is 1 hour and 40 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 5 hours and 29 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 40 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 ∠23.3°.
10 days since point of apogee on 28 July 2053 at 06:44 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 12 August 2053 at 14:58 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 372 270 km (231 318 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 223 km (223 832 mi).
4 days after descending node on 2 August 2053 at 22:15 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 15 August 2053 at 17:54 in ♍ Virgo.
10 days since the last southern standstill on 27 July 2053 at 19:24 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.438° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.377° at the point of next northern standstill on 10 August 2053 at 19:35 in ♊ Gemini.
19 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 14 August 2053 at 00:41 in ♌ Leo 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