First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 50% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 7 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 29 June 2028 at 12:10 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 passing about ∠8° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2028 after 7 days on 6 July 2028 at 18:11.
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 3.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1963" and ∠1887".
The Moon is 7 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 352 of Meeus index or 1305 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 34 minutes and it is 52 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 4 hours and 10 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 59 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 ∠308.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠330.4°.
3 days since point of perigee on 26 June 2028 at 04:14 in ♌ Leo 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 11 July 2028 at 22:26 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 365 127 km (226 879 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 945 km (251 621 mi).
5 days after descending node on 24 June 2028 at 06:42 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 7 July 2028 at 09:34 in ♑ Capricorn.
7 days since the last northern standstill on 21 June 2028 at 22:15 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.920° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.933° at the point of next southern standstill on 4 July 2028 at 18:46 in ♐ Sagittarius.
19 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 7 days on 6 July 2028 at 18:11 in ♑ Capricorn 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