First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 56% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 8 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 23 November 2058 at 00:16 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 ∠8° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2058 after 6 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 1.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1968" and ∠1943".
The Moon is 8 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 728 of Meeus index or 1681 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 2 minutes and it is 1 hour and 17 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 18 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 45 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 ∠294° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠321.5°.
2 days since point of perigee on 20 November 2058 at 22:40 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 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 6 December 2058 at 07:43 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 364 259 km (226 340 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 781 km (251 519 mi).
6 days after descending node on 16 November 2058 at 23:56 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 29 November 2058 at 23:07 in ♉ Taurus.
4 days since the last southern standstill on 19 November 2058 at 09:59 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.009° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.007° at the point of next northern standstill on 2 December 2058 at 15:32 in ♋ Cancer.
20 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 30 November 2058 at 03:17 in ♊ Gemini 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