First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 54% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 8 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 1 April 2058 at 01:03 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 passing about ∠17° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2058 after 7 days on 8 April 2058 at 22:55.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 8.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1920".
The Moon is 8 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 720 of Meeus index or 1673 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 39 minutes and it is 1 hour and 15 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 5 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 4 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 ∠50.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠82.2°.
Moon is at apogee at 23:36 about 11 days since last perigee on 21 March 2058 at 01:53 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next perigee on 15 April 2058 at 18:36 in ♑ Capricorn.
This apogee Moon is 404 315 km (251 230 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 093 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 394 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
2 days after ascending node on 30 March 2058 at 00:38 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 13 April 2058 at 02:25 in ♐ Sagittarius.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 31 March 2058 at 23:15 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.018° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.135° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 April 2058 at 20:05 in ♑ Capricorn.
2 days 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 7 days on 8 April 2058 at 22:55 in ♎ Libra 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
