Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 53% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 24 September 2054 at 18:26 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 leaving the last ∠2° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2054 after 22 days on 16 October 2054 at 17:44.
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 ∠1919" and ∠1913".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 676 of Meeus index or 1629 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 31 minutes and it is 1 hour and 41 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 4 hours and 13 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 56 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 ∠7.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠23.7°.
9 days since point of apogee on 14 September 2054 at 13:46 in ♒ Aquarius 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 29 September 2054 at 23:51 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 373 505 km (232 085 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 310 km (223 886 mi).
9 days after descending node on 14 September 2054 at 21:07 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 28 September 2054 at 16:44 in ♌ Leo.
13 days since the last southern standstill on 10 September 2054 at 15:24 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.139° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠19.216° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 September 2054 at 05:02 in ♋ Cancer.
23 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 1 October 2054 at 09:49 in ♎ Libra 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