First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 62% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 8 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 2 March 2058 at 05:10 UTC.
The moon rises at noon and sets at midnight. It is visible high in the southern sky in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2058 after 6 days on 10 March 2058 at 08:52.
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 8.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1776" and ∠1935".
The Moon is 8 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 719 of Meeus index or 1672 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 53 minutes and it is 46 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 51 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 18 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 ∠28.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠50.9°.
10 days since point of perigee on 21 February 2058 at 06:06 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 5 March 2058 at 03:58 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 403 639 km (250 810 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 080 km (251 705 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 2 March 2058 at 22:25 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 17 March 2058 at 01:12 in ♐ Sagittarius.
12 days since the last southern standstill on 19 February 2058 at 08:23 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.665° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠24.758° at the point of next northern standstill on 4 March 2058 at 15:47 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 10 March 2058 at 08:52 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon 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