Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 42% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 18 March 2066 at 19:25 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 ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2066 after 21 days on 10 April 2066 at 10:03.
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 2.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1967" and ∠1927".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 818 of Meeus index or 1771 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 23 minutes and it is 53 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 39 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 24 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 ∠61.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠96.6°.
2 days since point of perigee on 16 March 2066 at 19:50 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 1 April 2066 at 02:53 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 364 473 km (226 473 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 532 km (251 365 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♑ Capricorn at 23:41 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next descending node later on 2 April 2066 at 22:54 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 18 March 2066 at 04:52 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.141° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.009° at the point of next northern standstill on 31 March 2066 at 23:06 in ♊ Gemini.
At 23:41 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 6 days on 25 March 2066 at 22:13 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