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 9 September 2058 at 18:07 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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2058 after 21 days on 2 October 2058 at 01:36.
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 5.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1797" and ∠1906".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 725 of Meeus index or 1678 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 14 minutes and it is 27 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 30 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 33 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠196° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠223°.
8 days since point of perigee on 1 September 2058 at 14:39 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 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 13 September 2058 at 22:43 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 398 871 km (247 847 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 674 km (252 074 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 9 September 2058 at 03:37 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 23 September 2058 at 15:09 in ♐ Sagittarius.
11 days since the last southern standstill on 29 August 2058 at 15:55 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.493° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠25.586° at the point of next northern standstill on 11 September 2058 at 14:56 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 7 days on 17 September 2058 at 22:17 in ♍ Virgo 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