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 25 February 2087 at 17:06 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 ∠17° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2087 after 20 days on 19 March 2087 at 06:09.
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 7.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1800" and ∠1937".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1077 of Meeus index or 2030 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 35 minutes and it is 1 hour and 54 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 1 hour and 9 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours 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 ∠308.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠330.8°.
3 days since point of apogee on 22 February 2087 at 20:55 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 March 2087 at 18:05 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 398 165 km (247 408 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 586 km (224 679 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 25 February 2087 at 00:02 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 9 March 2087 at 22:37 in ♉ Taurus.
At 16:05 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-21.215°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠21.096° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 11 March 2087 at 11:26.
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 6 days on 4 March 2087 at 23:45 in ♓ Pisces 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