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 17 May 2074 at 20:39 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 ∠23° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2074 after 22 days on 9 June 2074 at 09:27.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunar disc appears visually 1.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1866" and ∠1897".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 919 of Meeus index or 1872 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 57 minutes and it is 1 hour and 3 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 3 hours and 13 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 50 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 ∠170.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠193.2°.
6 days since point of perigee on 11 May 2074 at 01:01 in ♏ Scorpio 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 24 May 2074 at 11:59 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 384 182 km (238 720 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 578 km (252 636 mi).
1 day after descending node on 16 May 2074 at 05:00 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 30 May 2074 at 19:46 in ♋ Cancer.
3 days since the last southern standstill on 14 May 2074 at 10:18 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.864° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.959° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 May 2074 at 22:31 in ♋ Cancer.
13 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 8 days on 25 May 2074 at 22:44 in ♉ Taurus 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