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 15 January 2088 at 15:13 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 ∠6° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2088 after 21 days on 6 February 2088 at 21:33.
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 9.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1781" and ∠1950".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1088 of Meeus index or 2041 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 56 minutes and it is 2 hours and 25 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 5 hours and 12 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 51 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 ∠208.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠241.2°.
9 days since point of perigee on 6 January 2088 at 19:17 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 18 January 2088 at 17:28 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 402 403 km (250 042 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 230 km (251 798 mi).
12 days after descending node on 4 January 2088 at 02:18 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 17 January 2088 at 02:46 in ♏ Scorpio.
9 days since the last northern standstill on 6 January 2088 at 13:10 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.031° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.974° at the point of next southern standstill on 20 January 2088 at 07:04 in ♐ Sagittarius.
26 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 23 January 2088 at 19:38 in ♑ Capricorn 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