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 5 February 2059 at 18:49 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 ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♐ Sagittarius later.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2059 after 20 days on 27 February 2059 at 10:06.
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 4.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1867" and ∠1946".
The Moon is 22 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 730 of Meeus index or 1683 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 30 minutes and it is 52 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 14 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 55 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 ∠341.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠357°.
6 days since point of apogee on 30 January 2059 at 13:03 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 12 February 2059 at 18:34 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 383 916 km (238 554 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 693 km (221 639 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♏ Scorpio at 23:45 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 19 February 2059 at 09:15 in ♊ Gemini.
11 days since the last northern standstill on 26 January 2059 at 04:36 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.006° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.103° at the point of next southern standstill on 9 February 2059 at 14:58 in ♑ Capricorn.
14 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 12 February 2059 at 14:27 in ♒ Aquarius 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