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 10 August 2088 at 00:57 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 ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2088 after 22 days on 1 September 2088 at 02:57.
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 2.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1940" and ∠1893".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1095 of Meeus index or 2048 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 37 minutes and it is 2 hours and 5 minutes 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 5 hours and 7 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 2 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 ∠18.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠37.4°.
10 days since point of apogee on 29 July 2088 at 13:38 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 14 August 2088 at 08:21 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 369 527 km (229 613 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 518 km (225 880 mi).
1 day after descending node on 8 August 2088 at 17:40 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 21 August 2088 at 10:34 in ♎ Libra.
10 days since the last southern standstill on 29 July 2088 at 12:39 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.292° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.180° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 August 2088 at 11:16 in ♊ Gemini.
15 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 16 August 2088 at 16:15 in ♌ Leo 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