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 23 September 2092 at 19:05 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 ∠2° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2092 after 21 days on 15 October 2092 at 10:25.
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 7.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1913".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1146 of Meeus index or 2099 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 1 minute and it is 48 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 and 43 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 26 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 ∠282.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠312.2°.
1 day since point of apogee on 22 September 2092 at 14:18 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 4 October 2092 at 11:15 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 404 997 km (251 653 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 907 km (227 364 mi).
10 days after descending node on 12 September 2092 at 21:06 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 27 September 2092 at 04:29 in ♌ Leo.
13 days since the last southern standstill on 10 September 2092 at 11:11 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.164° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠20.251° at the point of next northern standstill on 24 September 2092 at 12:04 in ♋ Cancer.
23 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 7 days on 1 October 2092 at 09:15 in ♎ Libra 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