Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 42% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 23 November 2081 at 19:49 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 ∠12° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2081 after 21 days on 16 December 2081 at 04:31.
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 1.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1944".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1012 of Meeus index or 1965 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 32 minutes and it is 2 hours and 20 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 12 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 57 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 ∠29.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠52.5°.
13 days since point of apogee on 11 November 2081 at 04:54 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 27 November 2081 at 03:46 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 363 830 km (226 073 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 156 km (228 140 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♍ Virgo at 11:52 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 7 December 2081 at 17:00 in ♓ Pisces.
5 days since the last northern standstill on 19 November 2081 at 01:19 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.201° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.151° at the point of next southern standstill on 1 December 2081 at 21:51 in ♐ Sagittarius.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 30 November 2081 at 14:36 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