Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 45% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 10 February 2072 at 23:27 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 ∠1° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♐ Sagittarius later.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2072 after 22 days on 4 March 2072 at 15:17.
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 4.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1851" and ∠1944".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 891 of Meeus index or 1844 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 29 minutes and it is 1 hour and 11 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2072. 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 6 hours and 44 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 18 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 ∠166.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠190.8°.
7 days since point of perigee on 4 February 2072 at 06:26 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 17 February 2072 at 20:18 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 387 293 km (240 653 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 547 km (252 617 mi).
5 days after ascending node on 6 February 2072 at 10:25 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 20 February 2072 at 15:17 in ♓ Pisces.
10 days since the last northern standstill on 1 February 2072 at 09:58 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.364° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.318° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 February 2072 at 06:42 in ♑ Capricorn.
5 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 19 February 2072 at 02:03 in ♓ Pisces 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