Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 52% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 31 October 2056 at 16:12 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 ∠7° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2056 after 21 days on 22 November 2056 at 06:12.
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 5.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1837" and ∠1933".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 702 of Meeus index or 1655 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 20 minutes and it is 50 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 24 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 45 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 ∠337.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠353.9°.
5 days since point of apogee on 25 October 2056 at 20:58 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 7 November 2056 at 20:56 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 390 127 km (242 414 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 013 km (221 838 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 29 October 2056 at 17:10 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 11 November 2056 at 09:30 in ♑ Capricorn.
2 days since the last northern standstill on 29 October 2056 at 11:13 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.641° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-22.728° at the point of next southern standstill on 11 November 2056 at 06:14 in ♑ Capricorn.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 7 November 2056 at 12:20 in ♏ Scorpio 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