Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 51% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 28 September 2097 at 13:39 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 ∠5° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2097 after 22 days on 21 October 2097 at 01:23.
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 2.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1916".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1208 of Meeus index or 2161 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 12 minutes and it is 3 hours and 11 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 1 hour and 33 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 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 ∠47.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠76.4°.
13 days since point of apogee on 14 September 2097 at 20:28 in ♑ Capricorn 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 29 September 2097 at 06:20 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 363 364 km (225 784 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 864 km (229 823 mi).
4 days after ascending node on 24 September 2097 at 02:09 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 7 October 2097 at 00:55 in ♏ Scorpio.
At 13:01 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠27.911°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-27.965° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 12 October 2097 at 03:02.
4 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 5 October 2097 at 11:45 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