Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 45% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 10 March 2064 at 00:33 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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2064 after 22 days on 1 April 2064 at 17:40.
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 3.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1869" and ∠1931".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 793 of Meeus index or 1746 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 42 minutes and it is 1 hour and 25 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2064. 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 58 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 5 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 ∠156.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠181.6°.
6 days since point of perigee on 3 March 2064 at 17:31 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 17 March 2064 at 21:10 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 383 511 km (238 303 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 581 km (252 638 mi).
8 days after descending node on 2 March 2064 at 02:40 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 15 March 2064 at 05:39 in ♒ Aquarius.
At 08:07 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-27.823°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠27.727° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 25 March 2064 at 03:21.
22 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 18 March 2064 at 01:45 in ♓ Pisces 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