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 1 December 2064 at 15:00 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 ∠8° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2064 after 22 days on 23 December 2064 at 18:14.
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 0.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1942" and ∠1946".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 802 of Meeus index or 1755 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 44 minutes and it is 2 hours and 2 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 2 hours shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 9 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 ∠14.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠33°.
11 days since point of apogee on 20 November 2064 at 08:27 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 December 2064 at 06:12 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 369 126 km (229 364 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 504 km (225 250 mi).
2 days after descending node on 29 November 2064 at 05:50 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 11 December 2064 at 21:17 in ♒ Aquarius.
5 days since the last northern standstill on 25 November 2064 at 15:41 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.797° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.787° at the point of next southern standstill on 8 December 2064 at 15:21 in ♐ Sagittarius.
16 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 6 days on 8 December 2064 at 06:28 in ♐ Sagittarius 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