Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 51% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 13 June 2077 at 14:08 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 ∠22° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2077 after 22 days on 6 July 2077 at 01:22.
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 4.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1889".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 957 of Meeus index or 1910 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 17 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 2 hours and 27 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 42 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 ∠50.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠80.3°.
Moon is at perigee at 20:17 about 14 days since last apogee on 30 May 2077 at 18:38 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next apogee on 27 June 2077 at 13:19 in ♍ Virgo.
This perigee Moon is 369 667 km (229 700 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest perigee of 2077. It is 7 159 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 689 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
7 days after descending node on 5 June 2077 at 23:08 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 18 June 2077 at 21:39 in ♊ Gemini.
5 days since the last southern standstill on 8 June 2077 at 08:58 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.830° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.810° at the point of next northern standstill on 21 June 2077 at 07:13 in ♋ Cancer.
21 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 20 June 2077 at 12:55 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