Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 56% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 5 July 2094 at 00:54 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 ∠6° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2094 after 23 days on 27 July 2094 at 17:39.
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 3.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1952" and ∠1887".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1168 of Meeus index or 2121 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 33 minutes and it is 1 hour and 27 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 49 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 14 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 ∠109.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠141.9°.
4 days since point of perigee on 30 June 2094 at 11:51 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 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 16 July 2094 at 04:45 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 367 124 km (228 120 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 856 km (252 187 mi).
6 days after descending node on 28 June 2094 at 10:31 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 11 July 2094 at 11:47 in ♋ Cancer.
5 days since the last southern standstill on 28 June 2094 at 17:52 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.311° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.299° at the point of next northern standstill on 11 July 2094 at 20:37 in ♋ Cancer.
20 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 12 July 2094 at 13:36 in ♋ Cancer 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