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 8 August 2061 at 16:09 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 ∠14° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2061 after 22 days on 30 August 2061 at 22:18.
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 3.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1963" and ∠1893".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 761 of Meeus index or 1714 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 29 minutes and it is 2 hours and 29 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 15 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 54 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 ∠31.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠53.7°.
12 days since point of apogee on 27 July 2061 at 02:41 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 11 August 2061 at 19:47 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 365 129 km (226 881 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 956 km (228 016 mi).
2 days after ascending node on 6 August 2061 at 04:44 in ♈ Aries 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 19 August 2061 at 00:57 in ♎ Libra.
10 days since the last southern standstill on 29 July 2061 at 09:52 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.342° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.426° at the point of next northern standstill on 11 August 2061 at 20:45 in ♊ Gemini.
2 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 6 days on 15 August 2061 at 09:39 in ♌ Leo 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
