Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 46% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 6 March 2097 at 02:47 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 ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2097 after 21 days on 27 March 2097 at 21:28.
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 8.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1933".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1201 of Meeus index or 2154 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 8 minutes and it is 2 hours and 38 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 24 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 39 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 ∠257.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠293.2°.
Moon is at apogee at 06:30 about 12 days since last perigee on 22 February 2097 at 00:22 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next perigee on 18 March 2097 at 19:21 in ♉ Taurus.
This apogee Moon is 404 233 km (251 179 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest apogee of 2097. It is 1 175 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 182 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
3 days after descending node on 3 March 2097 at 10:12 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 17 March 2097 at 10:29 in ♉ Taurus.
12 days since the last northern standstill on 22 February 2097 at 00:30 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.174° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-27.286° at the point of next southern standstill on 7 March 2097 at 20:59 in ♑ Capricorn.
16 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 13 March 2097 at 21:56 in ♓ Pisces 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