Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 52% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 22 September 2065 at 18:09 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 ∠3° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2065 after 21 days on 14 October 2065 at 07:04.
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 ∠1781" and ∠1912".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 812 of Meeus index or 1765 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 45 minutes and it is 21 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 2 hours and 59 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 10 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 ∠303.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠327.1°.
2 days since point of apogee on 20 September 2065 at 05:27 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 2 October 2065 at 02:38 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 402 449 km (250 070 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 386 km (225 176 mi).
12 days after ascending node on 10 September 2065 at 09:27 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 24 September 2065 at 18:20 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 21 September 2065 at 23:05 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.907° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.796° at the point of next southern standstill on 5 October 2065 at 01:57 in ♐ Sagittarius.
12 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 7 days on 30 September 2065 at 02:24 in ♎ Libra 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