Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 47% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 20 March 2093 at 04:57 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 first ∠4° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2093 after 22 days on 11 April 2093 at 16:35.
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 2.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1926".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1152 of Meeus index or 2105 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 12 minutes and it is 42 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 32 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 37 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 ∠43.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠73.1°.
13 days since point of apogee on 6 March 2093 at 14:56 in ♊ Gemini 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 21 March 2093 at 10:04 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 363 312 km (225 752 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 821 km (229 796 mi).
11 days after ascending node on 9 March 2093 at 06:15 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 22 March 2093 at 12:52 in ♒ Aquarius.
At 23:15 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-21.054°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠21.174° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 3 April 2093 at 16:04.
11 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 27 March 2093 at 03:18 in ♈ Aries 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