Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 56% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 7 April 2086 at 02:22 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 passing about ∠10° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2086 after 22 days on 28 April 2086 at 22:35.
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 0.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1899" and ∠1917".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1066 of Meeus index or 2019 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 49 minutes and it is 1 minute longer 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 3 hours and 55 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 14 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 ∠2.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠18.1°.
9 days since point of apogee on 28 March 2086 at 11:54 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 12 April 2086 at 15:10 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 377 486 km (234 559 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 914 km (223 019 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 4 April 2086 at 14:12 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 17 April 2086 at 03:54 in ♊ Gemini.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 4 April 2086 at 20:32 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.622° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.550° at the point of next northern standstill on 17 April 2086 at 10:50 in ♊ Gemini.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 13 April 2086 at 16:53 in ♈ Aries 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