• You remember that the moon has a closest and farthest point from Earth every month, right? On August 10, 2012 the moon will swing to apogee - its farthest point. It'll be 404,123 kilometers from Earth then. That distance is closer than any moon apogee all year.
• As a rule of thumb, the year's nearest apogee takes place in the month when the quarter moon most closely aligns with apogee. And so it is for the moon tomorrow, which presents the closest far-moon of the year on Friday, August 10 - at 11 Universal Time. Converting Universal Time to the clock time at our U.S. time zones, that places the closest far-moon at 7 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, 6 a.m. Central Daylight Time, 5 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time and 4 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time.
• How do I translate Universal Time into my time?
• The last quarter moon phase comes today - on August 9 - at 18:55 Universal Time. That's about 16 hours before the moon swings to apogee.

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