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 1 August 2097 at 01:24 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 ∠2° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2097 after 22 days on 22 August 2097 at 23:52.
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 1.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1919" and ∠1891".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1206 of Meeus index or 2159 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 2 minutes and it is 1 hour and 32 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 5 hours and 42 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 27 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 ∠10° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠26.5°.
9 days since point of apogee on 21 July 2097 at 14:19 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 August 2097 at 01:35 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 373 508 km (232 087 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 915 km (224 262 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♉ Taurus at 21:54 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 13 August 2097 at 12:51 in ♏ Scorpio.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 22 July 2097 at 05:45 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.475° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.559° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 August 2097 at 00:09 in ♋ Cancer.
At 21:54 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 7 August 2097 at 16:00 in ♌ Leo 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