First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 64% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 9 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 31 May 2028 at 07:37 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 ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♎ Libra later.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2028 after 5 days on 7 June 2028 at 06:09.
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% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1968" and ∠1892".
The Moon is 9 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 351 of Meeus index or 1304 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 11 minutes and it is 1 hour and 37 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 33 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 36 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 ∠278.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠308.1°.
1 day since point of perigee on 31 May 2028 at 06:18 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 14 June 2028 at 04:46 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 364 191 km (226 298 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 222 km (251 172 mi).
4 days after descending node on 28 May 2028 at 00:41 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 10 June 2028 at 02:18 in ♑ Capricorn.
6 days since the last northern standstill on 25 May 2028 at 14:09 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.917° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.908° at the point of next southern standstill on 7 June 2028 at 11:55 in ♐ Sagittarius.
18 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 5 days on 7 June 2028 at 06:09 in ♐ Sagittarius 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