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 25 May 2076 at 11:51 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 ∠5° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2076 after 22 days on 17 June 2076 at 02:38.
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 3.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1965" and ∠1894".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 944 of Meeus index or 1897 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 22 minutes and it is 1 hour and 29 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 22 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 47 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 ∠78.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠114.1°.
3 days since point of perigee on 22 May 2076 at 07:47 in ♑ Capricorn 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 7 June 2076 at 01:18 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 364 799 km (226 676 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 950 km (251 624 mi).
4 days after descending node on 20 May 2076 at 16:43 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 2 June 2076 at 20:31 in ♊ Gemini.
3 days since the last southern standstill on 21 May 2076 at 17:57 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.310° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.333° at the point of next northern standstill on 4 June 2076 at 02:42 in ♋ Cancer.
18 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 1 June 2076 at 17:14 in ♊ Gemini 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