Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 49% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 31 May 2062 at 10:44 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 ∠11° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2062 after 21 days on 21 June 2062 at 21:43.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunar disc appears visually 4.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1815" and ∠1892".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 771 of Meeus index or 1724 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 49 minutes and it is 1 hour and 8 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 4 hours and 55 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour 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 ∠325.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠343.6°.
4 days since point of apogee on 27 May 2062 at 00:01 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 8 June 2062 at 10:43 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 394 848 km (245 347 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 773 km (222 931 mi).
13 days after descending node on 18 May 2062 at 08:14 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 1 June 2062 at 21:30 in ♓ Pisces.
5 days since the last southern standstill on 25 May 2062 at 13:58 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.459° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.432° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 June 2062 at 07:41 in ♊ Gemini.
25 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 7 June 2062 at 11:12 in ♊ Gemini 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