Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 43% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 9 March 2075 at 20:17 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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2075 after 21 days on 1 April 2075 at 08:45.
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 2.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1932".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 929 of Meeus index or 1882 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 44 minutes and it is 47 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 equal to the mean synodic month length. It is %hours_to_shortest% and %minutes_to_shortest% longer than the 21st century's shortest and %hours_to_longest% and %minutes_to_longest% shorter than the 21st century's longest synodic months.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠46.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠76.5°.
Moon is at perigee at 13:32 about 14 days since last apogee on 24 February 2075 at 02:31 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next apogee on 23 March 2075 at 23:11 in ♊ Gemini.
This perigee Moon is 370 071 km (229 951 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest perigee of 2075. It is 7 563 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 285 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
11 days after ascending node on 26 February 2075 at 22:09 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 12 March 2075 at 03:46 in ♑ Capricorn.
12 days since the last northern standstill on 26 February 2075 at 00:14 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.916° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-22.019° at the point of next southern standstill on 11 March 2075 at 10:20 in ♑ Capricorn.
11 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 16 March 2075 at 19:25 in ♓ Pisces 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