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Last Quarter on 16
June 2009 Tuesday

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Moon phase on 16 June 2009 Tuesday is Last

Quarter, 22 days old Moon is in Aries.

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Moon phase for 16 June

2009 Tuesday 12:00 UTC
2009 | June 2009

Last Quarter phase

Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific
Visualization Studio.

Last Quarter 44% illuminated

Last Quarter is the lunar phase on 16 June 2009,
Tuesday. Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the
Moon surface is 44% and getting smaller. The 22 days
old Moon is in Aries.

* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase

is on 15 June 2009 at 22:15 UTC.

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Moon phase and lunation

details

Moonrise and moonset

Moon rises at midnight and sets at noon. It is visible to
the south in the morning.

Moon is entering Aries

Moon is passing first ∠2° of Aries tropical zodiac
sector.

Apparent angular diameter

∠ 1842"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.5% narrower than solar
disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are
∠1842" and ∠1889".

Buck Moon after 20 days

Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2009 after
20 days on 7 July 2009 at 09:21.

Upcoming main Moon phases

New Moon in Gemini after 6 days on

22 June 2009 at 19:35

First Quarter in Libra after 12 days on

29 June 2009 at 11:28

Full Moon in Capricorn after 20 days on

7 July 2009 at 09:21

Last Quarter in Aries after 28 days on

15 July 2009 at 09:53

Neap tide
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.

Lunation 116 / 1069

The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is
moving through the last part of current synodic
month. This is lunation 116 of Meeus index or 1069
from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.31

days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and
24 minutes. It is 24 minutes longer than the next
lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic
months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly
getting closer to the value it has at the point of New
Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Lunation length shorter than

mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours
and 20 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month
length. It is 49 minutes longer compared to 21st
century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit position on 16

June 2009 Tuesday
12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠ 332.7°

At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly
is ∠332.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month
the true anomaly is going to be ∠349.4°.

Moon after apogee

5 days after point of apogee on 10 June 2009 at
16:04 in Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting
narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It
will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the
Moon reaches the point of next perigee on
23 June 2009 at 10:39 in Cancer.

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Distance to Moon 389 110 km

The Moon is 389 110 km (241 782 mi) away from
Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the
point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to
be 358 018 km (222 462 mi).

Moon after ascending node

5 days after ascending node on 11 June 2009 at
10:15 in Aquarius. The Moon is located north of
the ecliptic over the following 8 days, until the lunar
orbit crosses from North to South in descending node
on 24 June 2009 at 17:24 in Cancer.

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Draconic month
5 days since the beginning of current draconic month
in Aquarius, the Moon is navigating from the
beginning to the first part of the cycle.

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Moon before northern standstill

8 days since the previous standstill on 8 June 2009 at
02:03 in Sagittarius when the Moon has reached
South declination of ∠-26.429°, the lunar orbit is
extending northward over the next 5 days to face
maximum declination of ∠26.446° at the point of next
northern standstill on 22 June 2009 at 02:48 in
Gemini.

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Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 22 June 2009 at 19:35 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.

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fl Sources and credits

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

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