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 8 September 2069 at 01:22 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 ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2069 after 23 days on 30 September 2069 at 18:09.
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 2.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1960" and ∠1905".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 861 of Meeus index or 1814 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 32 minutes and it is 2 hours and 56 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 48 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 15 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 ∠99.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠133.4°.
3 days since point of perigee on 3 September 2069 at 20:15 in ♈ Aries 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 19 September 2069 at 17:06 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 365 751 km (227 267 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 575 km (252 013 mi).
2 days after descending node on 5 September 2069 at 05:58 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 18 September 2069 at 23:24 in ♎ Libra.
11 days since the last southern standstill on 26 August 2069 at 12:58 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.563° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠19.464° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 September 2069 at 10:56 in ♊ Gemini.
15 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 15 September 2069 at 11:35 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