Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 55% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 21 June 2098 at 23:50 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 ∠25° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2098 after 21 days on 13 July 2098 at 10:35.
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 4.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1797" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1217 of Meeus index or 2170 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 43 minutes and it is 58 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 5 hours and 1 minute shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 8 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 ∠320.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠339.4°.
3 days since point of apogee on 18 June 2098 at 01:07 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 30 June 2098 at 07:43 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 398 832 km (247 823 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 588 km (223 438 mi).
12 days after descending node on 9 June 2098 at 01:58 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 23 June 2098 at 14:19 in ♈ Aries.
6 days since the last southern standstill on 14 June 2098 at 16:36 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.153° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.163° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 June 2098 at 19:01 in ♊ Gemini.
25 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 7 days on 29 June 2098 at 02:06 in ♋ Cancer 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