Last Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 58% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 21 days old.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 24 January 2098 at 05:58 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 ∠25° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2098 after 23 days on 15 February 2098 at 21:00.
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 4.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1869" and ∠1949".
The Moon is 21 days old and navigating through the last part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1212 of Meeus index or 2165 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 22 minutes and it is 1 hour and 14 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2098. 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 6 hours and 38 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 25 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 ∠172.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠197°.
6 days since point of perigee on 17 January 2098 at 06:41 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 30 January 2098 at 12:32 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 383 607 km (238 362 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 584 km (252 640 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♎ Libra at 17:32 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 7 February 2098 at 09:03 in ♈ Aries.
7 days since the last northern standstill on 15 January 2098 at 22:37 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.895° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.941° at the point of next southern standstill on 29 January 2098 at 04:12 in ♑ Capricorn.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 1 February 2098 at 09:54 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