Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 52% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 17 March 2077 at 16:56 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 ∠25° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2077 after 21 days on 8 April 2077 at 11:05.
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% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1888" and ∠1928".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 954 of Meeus index or 1907 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 18 minutes and it is 22 minutes longer 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 3 hours and 26 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 43 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 ∠355.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠10.8°.
8 days since point of apogee on 9 March 2077 at 03:31 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 March 2077 at 17:12 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 379 656 km (235 907 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 576 km (222 187 mi).
1 day after descending node on 16 March 2077 at 09:32 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 28 March 2077 at 20:39 in ♊ Gemini.
13 days since the last northern standstill on 3 March 2077 at 22:10 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.349° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-25.499° at the point of next southern standstill on 18 March 2077 at 14:47 in ♑ Capricorn.
15 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 6 days on 24 March 2077 at 08:24 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