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 20 September 2057 at 20:25 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 ∠24° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2057 after 22 days on 12 October 2057 at 15:01.
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 7.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1911".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 713 of Meeus index or 1666 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 6 minutes and it is 47 minutes longer 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 38 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 31 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 ∠255.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠291.1°.
11 days since point of perigee on 8 September 2057 at 19:57 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 21 September 2057 at 02:28 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 405 307 km (251 846 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 133 km (251 117 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♊ Gemini at 21:22 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 4 October 2057 at 10:59 in ♐ Sagittarius.
12 days since the last southern standstill on 8 September 2057 at 05:28 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.933° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠24.051° at the point of next northern standstill on 21 September 2057 at 22:51 in ♋ Cancer.
At 21:22 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 8 days on 28 September 2057 at 16:00 in ♍ Virgo 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