Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 49% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 15 May 2077 at 09:26 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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2077 after 22 days on 6 June 2077 at 15:07.
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 3.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1963" and ∠1898".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 956 of Meeus index or 1909 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 18 minutes and it is 59 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 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 ∠28° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠50.2°.
12 days since point of apogee on 3 May 2077 at 00:26 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 18 May 2077 at 19:58 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 365 063 km (226 840 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 235 km (227 568 mi).
5 days after descending node on 9 May 2077 at 15:33 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 22 May 2077 at 13:10 in ♊ Gemini.
3 days since the last southern standstill on 12 May 2077 at 02:35 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.829° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.836° at the point of next northern standstill on 24 May 2077 at 22:23 in ♋ Cancer.
20 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 May 2077 at 02:38 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