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 16 October 2071 at 07:30 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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♌ Leo later.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2071 after 22 days on 7 November 2071 at 18:47.
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 2.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1925".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 887 of Meeus index or 1840 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 28 minutes and it is 2 hours and 42 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 1 hour and 16 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 53 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 ∠40.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠67.5°.
13 days since point of apogee on 2 October 2071 at 23:37 in ♑ Capricorn 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 18 October 2071 at 05:18 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 363 505 km (225 872 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 285 km (229 463 mi).
8 days after descending node on 7 October 2071 at 19:30 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 20 October 2071 at 21:10 in ♍ Virgo.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 14 October 2071 at 18:01 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.195° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.256° at the point of next southern standstill on 27 October 2071 at 22:38 in ♐ Sagittarius.
22 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 23 October 2071 at 04:49 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