Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 47% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 18 September 2079 at 05:22 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 ∠1° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2079 after 22 days on 10 October 2079 at 17:23.
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 3.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1910".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 985 of Meeus index or 1938 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 3 minutes and it is 3 hours and 11 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 1 hour and 41 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 28 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 ∠50.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠80.4°.
Moon is at perigee at 08:26 about 13 days since last apogee on 4 September 2079 at 08:27 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next apogee on 2 October 2079 at 03:57 in ♐ Sagittarius.
This perigee Moon is 369 896 km (229 843 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest perigee of 2079. It is 7 388 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 460 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
4 days after ascending node on 13 September 2079 at 17:20 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 26 September 2079 at 16:35 in ♎ Libra.
At 20:00 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠28.319°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-28.371° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 2 October 2079 at 14:22.
4 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 25 September 2079 at 04:06 in ♎ Libra 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