Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 54% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 2 December 2072 at 19:22 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 ∠7° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2072 after 22 days on 25 December 2072 at 07:15.
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 1.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1947".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 901 of Meeus index or 1854 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 38 minutes and it is 2 hours and 34 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 6 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 3 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 ∠41.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠69°.
13 days since point of apogee on 19 November 2072 at 08:15 in ♓ Pisces 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 4 December 2072 at 11:52 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 363 797 km (226 053 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 748 km (229 751 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♍ Virgo at 07:21 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 15 December 2072 at 14:09 in ♒ Aquarius.
4 days since the last northern standstill on 28 November 2072 at 02:29 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.023° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.074° at the point of next southern standstill on 11 December 2072 at 01:27 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 07:21 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 7 days on 9 December 2072 at 16:59 in ♐ Sagittarius 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