Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 50% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 13 September 2074 at 12:21 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 ∠21° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2074 after 21 days on 5 October 2074 at 02:55.
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 7.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1773" and ∠1908".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 923 of Meeus index or 1876 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 29 minutes and it is 46 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 2 hours and 15 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 54 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 ∠286° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠314.8°.
1 day since point of apogee on 12 September 2074 at 02:10 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 September 2074 at 22:46 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 404 330 km (251 239 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 307 km (226 991 mi).
10 days after descending node on 2 September 2074 at 12:11 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 16 September 2074 at 20:14 in ♋ Cancer.
12 days since the last southern standstill on 31 August 2074 at 23:27 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.072° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠21.157° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 September 2074 at 04:44 in ♋ Cancer.
23 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 7 days on 21 September 2074 at 01:28 in ♍ Virgo 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