First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 63% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 8 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 18 February 2032 at 03:29 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 passing about ∠16° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2032 after 6 days on 26 February 2032 at 07:43.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunar disc appears visually 6.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1811" and ∠1941".
The Moon is 8 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 397 of Meeus index or 1350 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 1 minute and it is 15 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2032. 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 2 hours and 44 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 25 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 ∠6.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠23.4°.
8 days since point of perigee on 10 February 2032 at 20:46 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 23 February 2032 at 18:41 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 395 733 km (245 897 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 290 km (252 457 mi).
2 days after descending node on 16 February 2032 at 21:13 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 2 March 2032 at 12:11 in ♏ Scorpio.
At 21:21 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠20.009°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-19.866° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 5 March 2032 at 11:40.
15 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 26 February 2032 at 07:43 in ♍ Virgo 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