Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 58% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 26 July 2092 at 07:31 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 2092 after 22 days on 17 August 2092 at 09:22.
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% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1798" and ∠1889".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1144 of Meeus index or 2097 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 44 minutes and it is 1 hour and 24 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 1 hour longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 3 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 ∠215.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠246.7°.
8 days since point of perigee on 17 July 2092 at 01:42 in ♐ Sagittarius 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 29 July 2092 at 00:58 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 398 662 km (247 717 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 974 km (251 639 mi).
5 days after descending node on 20 July 2092 at 04:19 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 3 August 2092 at 13:51 in ♌ Leo.
7 days since the last southern standstill on 17 July 2092 at 20:34 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.092° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.082° at the point of next northern standstill on 31 July 2092 at 20:14 in ♋ Cancer.
18 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 3 August 2092 at 09:54 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