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 26 November 2078 at 07:54 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 ∠7° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2078 after 22 days on 18 December 2078 at 23:34.
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 5.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1848" and ∠1945".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 975 of Meeus index or 1928 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 12 minutes and it is 30 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2078. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 6 hours and 28 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 35 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠172.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠196.6°.
7 days since point of perigee on 19 November 2078 at 08:57 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 2 December 2078 at 15:34 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 387 954 km (241 063 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 382 km (252 514 mi).
8 days after ascending node on 18 November 2078 at 09:52 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 1 December 2078 at 18:16 in ♏ Scorpio.
4 days since the last northern standstill on 22 November 2078 at 03:20 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.596° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.555° at the point of next southern standstill on 6 December 2078 at 12:06 in ♑ Capricorn.
8 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 4 December 2078 at 12:08 in ♐ Sagittarius 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