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 2 January 2062 at 13:21 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 ∠12° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2062 after 22 days on 25 January 2062 at 03:37.
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 5.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1843" and ∠1951".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 766 of Meeus index or 1719 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 20 minutes and it is 1 hour and 2 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2062. 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 6 hours and 36 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 27 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 ∠176.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠201.9°.
21 days since point of apogee on 12 December 2061 at 07:27 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 8 January 2062 at 09:05 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 388 846 km (241 618 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 473 km (252 571 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♎ Libra at 00:30 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 16 January 2062 at 15:36 in ♓ Pisces.
7 days since the last northern standstill on 26 December 2061 at 10:29 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.396° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.405° at the point of next southern standstill on 9 January 2062 at 02:13 in ♑ Capricorn.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 10 January 2062 at 17:52 in ♑ Capricorn 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