Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 54% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 27 October 2097 at 19:56 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 ∠1° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2097 after 23 days on 19 November 2097 at 13:03.
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 1.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1969" and ∠1931".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1209 of Meeus index or 2162 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 23 minutes and it is 2 hours and 55 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 39 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 24 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 ∠76.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠112.4°.
2 days since point of perigee on 24 October 2097 at 15:32 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 9 November 2097 at 12:12 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 364 110 km (226 247 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 13 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 184 km (251 770 mi).
6 days after ascending node on 21 October 2097 at 09:50 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 3 November 2097 at 09:02 in ♏ Scorpio.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 25 October 2097 at 18:37 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.974° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.959° at the point of next southern standstill on 8 November 2097 at 10:53 in ♑ Capricorn.
6 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 7 days on 4 November 2097 at 02:08 in ♏ Scorpio 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