First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 55% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 8 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 15 September 2029 at 01:29 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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2029 after 7 days on 22 September 2029 at 16:29.
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% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1927" and ∠1909".
The Moon is 8 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 367 of Meeus index or 1320 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 30 minutes and it is 40 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2029. 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 4 hours and 14 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour 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 ∠331.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠348.5°.
5 days since point of perigee on 10 September 2029 at 04:27 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 25 September 2029 at 19:40 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 371 996 km (231 148 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 002 km (252 278 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 16:33 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next descending node later on 30 September 2029 at 04:00 in ♊ Gemini.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 14 September 2029 at 18:54 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.021° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.869° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 September 2029 at 06:54 in ♊ Gemini.
At 16:33 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 7 days on 22 September 2029 at 16:29 in ♓ Pisces 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