Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 56% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 28 March 2076 at 00:26 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 first ∠1° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2076 after 22 days on 19 April 2076 at 06:29.
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 1.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1955" and ∠1922".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 942 of Meeus index or 1895 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 23 minutes and it is 42 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 2 hours and 21 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 48 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 ∠26.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠48.3°.
11 days since point of apogee on 15 March 2076 at 16:37 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 31 March 2076 at 14:52 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 366 690 km (227 851 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 056 km (227 457 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 10:20 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 9 April 2076 at 08:47 in ♊ Gemini.
13 days since the last northern standstill on 14 March 2076 at 02:15 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.806° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-23.953° at the point of next southern standstill on 28 March 2076 at 05:49 in ♑ Capricorn.
14 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 3 April 2076 at 17:47 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