Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 48% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 24 May 2068 at 08:00 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 ∠6° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2068 after 22 days on 15 June 2068 at 17:00.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunar disc appears visually 4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1894".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 845 of Meeus index or 1798 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 56 minutes and it is 1 hour and 12 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 and 48 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 21 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 ∠39.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠66°.
13 days since point of apogee on 11 May 2068 at 03:18 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 26 May 2068 at 09:16 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 363 595 km (225 927 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 748 km (229 129 mi).
6 days after ascending node on 17 May 2068 at 14:48 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 30 May 2068 at 13:21 in ♉ Taurus.
5 days since the last southern standstill on 18 May 2068 at 20:10 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.444° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.451° at the point of next northern standstill on 31 May 2068 at 17:47 in ♊ Gemini.
6 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 31 May 2068 at 04:03 in ♊ Gemini 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