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 27 March 2087 at 11:04 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 ∠7° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2087 after 21 days on 17 April 2087 at 23:17.
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 ∠1826" and ∠1922".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1078 of Meeus index or 2031 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 41 minutes and it is 1 hour 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 3 hours and 3 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 6 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 ∠330.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠347.9°.
5 days since point of apogee on 22 March 2087 at 11:38 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 4 April 2087 at 02:28 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 392 616 km (243 960 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 973 km (222 434 mi).
3 days after ascending node on 24 March 2087 at 01:56 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 6 April 2087 at 03:50 in ♉ Taurus.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 25 March 2087 at 23:36 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.961° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.888° at the point of next northern standstill on 7 April 2087 at 18:11 in ♊ Gemini.
3 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 3 April 2087 at 09:26 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