Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 53% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 19 July 2090 at 20:16 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 ∠24° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2090 after 21 days on 10 August 2090 at 06:51.
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 5.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1787" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1119 of Meeus index or 2072 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 8 minutes and it is 28 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 4 hours and 36 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 33 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 ∠310° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠331.5°.
2 days since point of apogee on 16 July 2090 at 18:12 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 28 July 2090 at 18:43 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 401 121 km (249 245 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 406 km (224 567 mi).
2 days after descending node on 16 July 2090 at 21:11 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 30 July 2090 at 05:38 in ♍ Virgo.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 10 July 2090 at 07:05 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.430° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.374° at the point of next northern standstill on 24 July 2090 at 19:29 in ♊ Gemini.
16 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 27 July 2090 at 01:19 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