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 24 October 2073 at 02:22 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 ∠24° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2073 after 22 days on 14 November 2073 at 19:55.
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 3.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1865" and ∠1929".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 912 of Meeus index or 1865 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 52 minutes and it is 1 hour and 7 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 3 hours and 52 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 17 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 ∠351.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠6.3°.
7 days since point of apogee on 16 October 2073 at 08:16 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 30 October 2073 at 10:23 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 384 322 km (238 807 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 043 km (221 856 mi).
12 days after descending node on 10 October 2073 at 18:58 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 25 October 2073 at 09:03 in ♌ Leo.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 22 October 2073 at 08:46 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.918° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-20.020° at the point of next southern standstill on 3 November 2073 at 23:06 in ♑ Capricorn.
25 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 30 October 2073 at 19:13 in ♏ Scorpio 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