Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 44% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 3 December 2080 at 22:52 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 ∠20° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2080 after 22 days on 26 December 2080 at 17:03.
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 0.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1955" and ∠1947".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1000 of Meeus index or 1953 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 33 minutes and it is 2 hours and 19 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 49 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 14 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 ∠82.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠119.5°.
4 days since point of perigee on 30 November 2080 at 07:40 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 16 December 2080 at 08:18 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 366 561 km (227 770 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 296 km (251 839 mi).
12 days after ascending node on 22 November 2080 at 09:33 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 5 December 2080 at 06:12 in ♎ Libra.
5 days since the last northern standstill on 28 November 2080 at 22:14 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.451° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.401° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 December 2080 at 02:19 in ♑ Capricorn.
12 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 11 December 2080 at 07:10 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