Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 53% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 5 April 2059 at 18:46 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 ∠12° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2059 after 22 days on 27 April 2059 at 19:17.
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 0.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1933" and ∠1918".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 732 of Meeus index or 1685 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 23 minutes and it is 24 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2059. 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 3 hours and 21 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 48 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 ∠12.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠30°.
10 days since point of apogee on 25 March 2059 at 20:15 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 April 2059 at 13:47 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 370 864 km (230 444 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 666 km (224 729 mi).
3 days after descending node on 2 April 2059 at 02:16 in ♏ Scorpio 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 14 April 2059 at 19:11 in ♉ Taurus.
At 06:01 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-26.541°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠26.607° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 17 April 2059 at 23:41.
17 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 12 April 2059 at 09:28 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