• The moon reaches its last quarter phase tomorrow - on Monday, June 11 - at precisely 5:41 a.m. Central Daylight Time (10:41 Universal Time). For the Central Time Zone in North America, the last quarter moon falls at roughly the same time as sunrise. On the Pacific Coast, the quarter moon takes place before dawn. On the Atlantic Coast, quarter moon occurs in the early morning after sunrise - but you should still be able to see it in your sky.
• The cool thing about the last quarter moon is that it shows you in which direction our planet Earth is revolving around the sun. At quarter moon, the lunar disk is

half-illuminated in sunshine and half-engulfed in the moon's own shadow. The terminator - the shadow line dividing the lunar day from the lunar night - shows you where it's sunset on the waning moon.
• Although the clock readings differ by time zone, the last quarter moon happens at the same instant worldwide. The half-lit last quarter moon falls at 6:41 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, 5:41 a.m. Central Daylight Time, 4:41 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time and 3:41 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time.
• The Earth speeds along in the general direction of the last quarter moon at some 67,000 miles per hour!
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