Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 53% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 24 March 2098 at 18:26 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 ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2098 after 22 days on 15 April 2098 at 19:04.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunar disc appears visually 7.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1781" and ∠1924".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1214 of Meeus index or 2167 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 45 minutes and it is 3 hours 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 3 hours and 1 minute longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 2 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 ∠225.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠260.4°.
9 days since point of perigee on 14 March 2098 at 23:15 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 26 March 2098 at 18:28 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 402 561 km (250 140 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 823 km (251 545 mi).
5 days after descending node on 19 March 2098 at 05:21 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 2 April 2098 at 16:45 in ♈ Aries.
At 17:32 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.293°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.320° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 7 April 2098 at 20:47.
18 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 1 April 2098 at 19:47 in ♈ Aries 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