Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 58% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 12 February 2099 at 05:08 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 ∠14° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2099 after 23 days on 6 March 2099 at 22:59.
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 1.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1910" and ∠1944".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1225 of Meeus index or 2178 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 58 minutes and it is 17 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2099. 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 6 hours and 14 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 49 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 ∠149° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠175.1°.
5 days since point of perigee on 6 February 2099 at 04:14 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 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 20 February 2099 at 17:45 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 375 262 km (233 177 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 556 km (252 622 mi).
2 days after descending node on 8 February 2099 at 19:39 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 23 February 2099 at 01:04 in ♈ Aries.
9 days since the last northern standstill on 2 February 2099 at 10:56 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.479° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.548° at the point of next southern standstill on 15 February 2099 at 03:18 in ♑ Capricorn.
15 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 20 February 2099 at 04:05 in ♓ Pisces 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