Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 48% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 22 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 8 November 2058 at 07:47 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 about ∠18° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2058 after 21 days on 30 November 2058 at 03:17.
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 9.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1937".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 727 of Meeus index or 1680 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 4 minutes and it is 1 hour and 2 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 1 hour and 20 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 43 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 ∠257.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠294°.
Moon is at apogee at 10:49 about 12 days since last perigee on 27 October 2058 at 04:18 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next perigee on 20 November 2058 at 22:40 in ♑ Capricorn.
This apogee Moon is 404 362 km (251 259 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 046 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 347 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
5 days after ascending node on 2 November 2058 at 14:30 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 16 November 2058 at 23:56 in ♏ Scorpio.
3 days since the last northern standstill on 5 November 2058 at 06:51 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.986° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.009° at the point of next southern standstill on 19 November 2058 at 09:59 in ♑ Capricorn.
5 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 16 November 2058 at 03:09 in ♏ Scorpio 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