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 13 October 2055 at 18:22 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 ∠17° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2055 after 22 days on 4 November 2055 at 12:12.
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 2.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1878" and ∠1924".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 689 of Meeus index or 1642 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 30 minutes and it is 1 hour and 15 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 14 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 55 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 ∠352.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠7.9°.
7 days since point of apogee on 5 October 2055 at 17:59 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 October 2055 at 23:43 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 381 705 km (237 180 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 259 km (221 990 mi).
13 days after descending node on 30 September 2055 at 10:30 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 15 October 2055 at 00:14 in ♌ Leo.
At 00:16 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠20.758°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-20.867° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 25 October 2055 at 12:52.
25 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 20 October 2055 at 10:49 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