Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 49% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 12 October 2093 at 10:10 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 ∠21° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2093 after 21 days on 3 November 2093 at 06:46.
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 8.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1923".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1159 of Meeus index or 2112 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 17 minutes and it is 53 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 33 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 30 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 ∠247.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠284.3°.
11 days since point of perigee on 1 October 2093 at 02:43 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 13 October 2093 at 02:43 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 405 269 km (251 822 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 214 km (251 167 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♋ Cancer at 13:29 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 26 October 2093 at 05:22 in ♑ Capricorn.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 11 October 2093 at 17:32 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.080° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠-22.213° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 October 2093 at 15:11 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 13:29 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 7 days on 20 October 2093 at 07:33 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