Crescent ♒ Aquarius
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 44% and getting smaller. The 22 days old Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 19 April 2082 at 21:46 UTC.
Moon rises at midnight and sets at noon. It is visible to the south in the morning.
Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 4.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1826" and ∠1909".
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2082 after 21 days on 12 May 2082 at 09:49.
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.
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1017 of Meeus index or 1970 from Brown series.
Length of current 1017 lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 57 minutes. It is 2 hours and 12 minutes longer than next lunation 1018 length.
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 13 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 50 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
This lunation true anomaly is ∠179.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠203.1°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
7 days after point of perigee on 12 April 2082 at 15:53 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 25 April 2082 at 15:39 in ♈ Aries.
Moon is 392 430 km (243 845 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 5 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 316 km (252 473 mi).
10 days after its descending node on 9 April 2082 at 20:43 in ♌ Leo, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 2 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 22 April 2082 at 17:02 in ♒ Aquarius.
24 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
3 days after previous South standstill on 17 April 2082 at 07:41 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.081°. Next 11 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠27.970° in the next northern standstill on 1 May 2082 at 23:20 in ♊ Gemini.
After 7 days on 28 April 2082 at 02:02 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.