Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 48% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 31 August 2086 at 07:52 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 ∠11° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2086 after 22 days on 23 September 2086 at 01:15.
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% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1920" and ∠1901".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1071 of Meeus index or 2024 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 39 minutes and it is 2 hours 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 55 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 8 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 ∠129.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠157.5°.
5 days since point of perigee on 26 August 2086 at 02:04 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 10 September 2086 at 10:10 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 373 320 km (231 970 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 378 km (252 512 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♊ Gemini at 08:57 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 14 September 2086 at 21:12 in ♐ Sagittarius.
12 days since the last southern standstill on 19 August 2086 at 11:08 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.198° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠22.092° at the point of next northern standstill on 1 September 2086 at 02:04 in ♊ Gemini.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 8 September 2086 at 01:17 in ♍ Virgo 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