First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 61% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 8 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 6 November 2027 at 08:00 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 ∠3° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2027 after 6 days on 14 November 2027 at 03:26.
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 9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1936".
The Moon is 8 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 344 of Meeus index or 1297 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 48 minutes and it is 3 hours shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 1 hour and 4 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 59 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 ∠61.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠96°.
1 day since point of apogee on 6 November 2027 at 11:37 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 November 2027 at 00:10 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 405 035 km (251 677 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 356 km (229 507 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 5 November 2027 at 16:54 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 19 November 2027 at 08:34 in ♌ Leo.
5 days since the last southern standstill on 2 November 2027 at 01:17 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.700° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.619° at the point of next northern standstill on 16 November 2027 at 07:40 in ♊ Gemini.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 14 November 2027 at 03:26 in ♉ Taurus 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