Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 55% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 23 August 2065 at 23:56 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 ∠25° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2065 after 22 days on 14 September 2065 at 16:05.
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 7.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1898".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 811 of Meeus index or 1764 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 53 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 1 hour and 51 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 18 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 ∠270.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠303.1°.
Moon is at apogee at 10:35 about 13 days since last perigee on 10 August 2065 at 06:04 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next perigee on 4 September 2065 at 13:22 in ♎ Libra.
This apogee Moon is 404 249 km (251 189 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest apogee of 2065. It is 1 159 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 198 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
9 days after ascending node on 14 August 2065 at 04:46 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 28 August 2065 at 12:53 in ♋ Cancer.
11 days since the last southern standstill on 11 August 2065 at 14:30 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.171° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.110° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 August 2065 at 15:06 in ♊ Gemini.
9 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 31 August 2065 at 16:39 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