Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 52% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 4 November 2080 at 15:10 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 ∠11° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2080 after 22 days on 27 November 2080 at 05:14.
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 1.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1936".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 999 of Meeus index or 1952 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 53 minutes and it is 2 hours and 40 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 9 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 54 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 ∠51.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠82.5°.
Moon is at perigee at 09:49 about 13 days since last apogee on 21 October 2080 at 15:25 in ♒ Aquarius 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 18 November 2080 at 12:07 in ♒ Aquarius.
This perigee Moon is 370 160 km (230 007 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest perigee of 2080. It is 7 652 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 196 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
9 days after ascending node on 26 October 2080 at 03:27 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 8 November 2080 at 04:19 in ♎ Libra.
2 days since the last northern standstill on 1 November 2080 at 15:18 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.580° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.509° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 November 2080 at 19:06 in ♐ Sagittarius.
9 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 7 days on 11 November 2080 at 15:37 in ♏ Scorpio 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