Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 58% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 27 September 2070 at 04:02 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 ∠25° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2070 after 23 days on 19 October 2070 at 18:59.
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 3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1914".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 874 of Meeus index or 1827 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 33 minutes and it is 3 hours and 8 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 11 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 58 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 ∠66.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠100.2°.
1 day since point of perigee on 24 September 2070 at 22:02 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 10 October 2070 at 07:45 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 363 332 km (225 764 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 13 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 811 km (251 538 mi).
4 days after descending node on 21 September 2070 at 16:24 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 4 October 2070 at 16:29 in ♎ Libra.
At 13:29 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠18.394°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2070. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-18.377° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 10 October 2070 at 08:55.
19 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 4 October 2070 at 07:01 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