Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 57% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 13 October 2074 at 06:47 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 ∠11° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2074 after 22 days on 3 November 2074 at 19:21.
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 7.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1786" and ∠1923".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 924 of Meeus index or 1877 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 43 minutes and it is 1 minute shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2074. 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 1 minute shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 8 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 ∠314.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠335.8°.
2 days since point of apogee on 9 October 2074 at 20:38 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 21 October 2074 at 21:56 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 401 341 km (249 382 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 248 km (223 848 mi).
12 days after descending node on 29 September 2074 at 14:52 in ♑ Capricorn 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 14 October 2074 at 00:03 in ♌ Leo.
At 12:44 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠21.404°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-21.522° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 25 October 2074 at 10:55.
25 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 20 October 2074 at 11:11 in ♎ Libra 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