Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 50% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 19 May 2082 at 12:58 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 ∠2° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2082 after 22 days on 10 June 2082 at 17:55.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunar disc appears visually 5.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1800" and ∠1896".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1018 of Meeus index or 1971 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 45 minutes and it is 2 hours and 16 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 2 hours and 1 minute longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 2 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 ∠203.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠231.3°.
8 days since point of perigee on 11 May 2082 at 00:30 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 23 May 2082 at 04:39 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 398 124 km (247 383 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 425 km (251 919 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♒ Aquarius at 18:38 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next descending node later on 3 June 2082 at 02:08 in ♍ Virgo.
4 days since the last southern standstill on 14 May 2082 at 17:09 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.907° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.839° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 May 2082 at 04:33 in ♊ Gemini.
At 18:38 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 8 days on 27 May 2082 at 16:47 in ♊ Gemini 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