Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 54% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 6 September 2061 at 21:12 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 ∠9° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2061 after 22 days on 29 September 2061 at 09:32.
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 3.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1904".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 762 of Meeus index or 1715 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 58 minutes and it is 3 hours and 6 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 1 hour and 46 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 23 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 ∠53.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠84.5°.
Moon is at perigee at 10:37 about 13 days since last apogee on 23 August 2061 at 20:28 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next apogee on 20 September 2061 at 15:48 in ♐ Sagittarius.
This perigee Moon is 369 805 km (229 786 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest perigee of 2061. It is 7 297 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 551 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
4 days after ascending node on 2 September 2061 at 08:31 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 15 September 2061 at 08:16 in ♎ Libra.
11 days since the last southern standstill on 25 August 2061 at 17:13 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.503° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠28.571° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 September 2061 at 02:43 in ♋ Cancer.
4 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 13 September 2061 at 20:37 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