Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 43% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 15 April 2058 at 22:27 UTC.
The moon rises at midnight and sets at noon. It is visible to the south in the morning.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2058 after 21 days on 8 May 2058 at 10:12.
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 3.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1911".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last 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°.
1 day since point of perigee on 15 April 2058 at 18:36 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 29 April 2058 at 19:18 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 363 523 km (225 883 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 13 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 300 km (251 220 mi).
3 days after descending node on 13 April 2058 at 02:25 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 26 April 2058 at 05:25 in ♊ Gemini.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 14 April 2058 at 20:05 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.135° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.222° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 April 2058 at 07:29 in ♋ Cancer.
17 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 22 April 2058 at 21:29 in ♈ Aries 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.
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