Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 55% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 16 July 2074 at 01:11 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 ∠17° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2074 after 22 days on 7 August 2074 at 02:06.
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 5.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1790" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 921 of Meeus index or 1874 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 28 minutes and it is 1 hour and 36 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 44 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 19 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 ∠218.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠250.9°.
8 days since point of perigee on 6 July 2074 at 14:26 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 18 July 2074 at 12:55 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 400 372 km (248 780 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 870 km (251 575 mi).
5 days after descending node on 9 July 2074 at 19:46 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 24 July 2074 at 05:30 in ♌ Leo.
7 days since the last southern standstill on 8 July 2074 at 08:12 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.006° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.003° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 July 2074 at 12:38 in ♋ Cancer.
18 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 24 July 2074 at 03:07 in ♌ Leo 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