Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 46% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 14 December 2090 at 04:25 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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♎ Libra later.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2091 after 22 days on 5 January 2091 at 15:50.
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 1.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1950".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1124 of Meeus index or 2077 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 41 minutes and it is 2 hours and 21 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 3 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 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 ∠39° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠65.8°.
13 days since point of apogee on 30 November 2090 at 20:42 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 16 December 2090 at 06:21 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 363 432 km (225 826 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 401 km (229 535 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 13 December 2090 at 16:31 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 26 December 2090 at 22:11 in ♓ Pisces.
6 days since the last northern standstill on 8 December 2090 at 10:26 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.615° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.635° at the point of next southern standstill on 21 December 2090 at 09:02 in ♑ Capricorn.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 21 December 2090 at 01:29 in ♐ Sagittarius 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