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 16 April 2077 at 02:50 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 ∠2° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2077 after 21 days on 8 May 2077 at 02:23.
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 1.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1941" and ∠1911".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 955 of Meeus index or 1908 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 56 minutes and it is 22 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2077. 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 48 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 21 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 ∠10.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠28°.
11 days since point of apogee on 5 April 2077 at 09:27 in ♍ Virgo 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 21 April 2077 at 00:47 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 369 206 km (229 414 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 175 km (224 424 mi).
4 days after descending node on 12 April 2077 at 10:56 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 25 April 2077 at 03:43 in ♊ Gemini.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 14 April 2077 at 21:00 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.720° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.782° at the point of next northern standstill on 27 April 2077 at 12:56 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 6 days on 22 April 2077 at 17:20 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