Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 55% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 9 June 2091 at 00:22 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 ∠12° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2091 after 22 days on 1 July 2091 at 01:54.
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 ∠1794" and ∠1890".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1130 of Meeus index or 2083 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 34 minutes and it is 1 hour and 59 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 50 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 13 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 ∠214.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠245.7°.
8 days since point of perigee on 30 May 2091 at 19:30 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 11 June 2091 at 19:05 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 399 622 km (248 314 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 966 km (251 634 mi).
1 day after descending node on 7 June 2091 at 23:53 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 22 June 2091 at 07:10 in ♍ Virgo.
5 days since the last southern standstill on 3 June 2091 at 09:48 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.930° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.975° at the point of next northern standstill on 17 June 2091 at 21:16 in ♊ Gemini.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 17 June 2091 at 02:41 in ♊ Gemini 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