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 10 November 2032 at 11:33 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 ∠19° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2032 after 6 days on 17 November 2032 at 06:42.
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 1.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1966" and ∠1938".
The Moon is 7 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 406 of Meeus index or 1359 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 8 minutes and it is 1 hour and 44 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 24 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 39 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 ∠248.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠286.1°.
12 days since point of apogee on 28 October 2032 at 18:22 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 13 November 2032 at 15:20 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 364 575 km (226 536 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 372 km (228 274 mi).
8 days after ascending node on 2 November 2032 at 09:04 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 15 November 2032 at 12:07 in ♉ Taurus.
4 days since the last southern standstill on 6 November 2032 at 09:19 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.070° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.095° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 November 2032 at 06:10 in ♊ Gemini.
8 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 17 November 2032 at 06:42 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