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 10 June 2099 at 21:49 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 ∠16° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2099 after 22 days on 2 July 2099 at 14:21.
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 6.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1890".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1229 of Meeus index or 2182 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 54 minutes and it is 2 hours and 3 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 1 hour and 50 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 19 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 ∠261.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠294.6°.
Moon is at apogee at 21:17 about 12 days since last perigee on 29 May 2099 at 07:58 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next perigee on 23 June 2099 at 09:41 in ♍ Virgo.
This apogee Moon is 404 057 km (251 069 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest apogee of 2099. It is 1 351 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 6 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
12 days after descending node on 29 May 2099 at 05:10 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 11 June 2099 at 21:49 in ♓ Pisces.
6 days since the last southern standstill on 4 June 2099 at 10:57 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.425° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.404° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 June 2099 at 20:43 in ♊ Gemini.
25 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 18 June 2099 at 16:10 in ♊ Gemini 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