Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 56% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 1 January 2054 at 01:11 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 first ∠3° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2054 after 23 days on 23 January 2054 at 20:08.
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% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1918" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 667 of Meeus index or 1620 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 53 minutes and it is 47 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest 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 longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 54 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠141.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠168.6°.
5 days since point of perigee on 26 December 2053 at 06:40 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 10 January 2054 at 05:56 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 373 729 km (232 224 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 537 km (252 610 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 29 December 2053 at 18:29 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 13 January 2054 at 02:36 in ♓ Pisces.
6 days since the last northern standstill on 25 December 2053 at 11:21 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.770° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.772° at the point of next southern standstill on 7 January 2054 at 19:44 in ♐ Sagittarius.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 8 January 2054 at 22:34 in ♑ Capricorn 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