Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 56% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 16 March 2069 at 03:31 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 ∠18° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2069 after 22 days on 6 April 2069 at 16:13.
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 6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1816" and ∠1929".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 855 of Meeus index or 1808 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 56 minutes and it is 1 hour and 11 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 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 ∠332.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠349.7°.
4 days since point of apogee on 10 March 2069 at 22:33 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 March 2069 at 15:45 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 394 607 km (245 197 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 672 km (222 247 mi).
2 days after ascending node on 12 March 2069 at 17:45 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 25 March 2069 at 18:54 in ♉ Taurus.
At 15:52 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-20.085°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠20.006° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 28 March 2069 at 06:45.
2 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 7 days on 23 March 2069 at 01:13 in ♈ Aries 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