Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 46% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 8 April 2075 at 03:03 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 ∠24° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2075 after 22 days on 30 April 2075 at 18:37.
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 2.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1962" and ∠1916".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 930 of Meeus index or 1883 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 31 minutes and it is 56 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 46 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 16 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 ∠76.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠113.2°.
3 days since point of perigee on 4 April 2075 at 22:38 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 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 20 April 2075 at 18:02 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 365 398 km (227 048 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 871 km (251 575 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♑ Capricorn at 04:27 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 22 April 2075 at 03:55 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 7 April 2075 at 15:33 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.269° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.404° at the point of next northern standstill on 21 April 2075 at 16:04 in ♋ Cancer.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 15 April 2075 at 08:55 in ♈ Aries 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