Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 43% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 14 December 2060 at 17:15 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 ∠3° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2061 after 21 days on 6 January 2061 at 02:24.
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 8.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1792" and ∠1950".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 753 of Meeus index or 1706 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 24 minutes and it is 1 hour and 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 5 hours and 40 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 23 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠199.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠228.7°.
9 days since point of perigee on 6 December 2060 at 09:57 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 18 December 2060 at 13:24 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 399 957 km (248 522 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 552 km (251 998 mi).
11 days after ascending node on 4 December 2060 at 10:07 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 17 December 2060 at 13:43 in ♎ Libra.
6 days since the last northern standstill on 8 December 2060 at 20:39 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.011° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.980° at the point of next southern standstill on 23 December 2060 at 03:55 in ♑ Capricorn.
11 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 22 December 2060 at 22:39 in ♐ Sagittarius 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