Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 51% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 24 February 2060 at 15:06 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 ∠4° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2060 after 21 days on 17 March 2060 at 03:41.
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 6.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1808" and ∠1939".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 743 of Meeus index or 1696 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 49 minutes and it is 1 hour and 23 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 1 hour and 55 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 14 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 ∠323.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠342.5°.
4 days since point of apogee on 20 February 2060 at 10:06 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 3 March 2060 at 16:59 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 396 333 km (246 270 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 816 km (222 958 mi).
1 day after descending node on 22 February 2060 at 12:39 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 6 March 2060 at 11:03 in ♉ Taurus.
12 days since the last northern standstill on 12 February 2060 at 09:28 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.319° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.445° at the point of next southern standstill on 27 February 2060 at 00:51 in ♑ Capricorn.
16 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 2 March 2060 at 16:11 in ♓ Pisces 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