First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 58% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 8 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 9 September 2035 at 14:47 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 ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2035 after 7 days on 17 September 2035 at 14:23.
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 7.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1906".
The Moon is 8 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 441 of Meeus index or 1394 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 7 minutes and it is 2 hours and 45 minutes 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 37 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 32 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 ∠46.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠75°.
Moon is at apogee at 23:26 about 11 days since last perigee on 30 August 2035 at 02:28 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next perigee on 25 September 2035 at 13:37 in ♋ Cancer.
This apogee Moon is 404 365 km (251 261 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 043 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 344 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
8 days after ascending node on 1 September 2035 at 19:14 in ♌ Leo 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 16 September 2035 at 02:58 in ♓ Pisces.
12 days since the last northern standstill on 28 August 2035 at 17:25 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.744° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-18.755° at the point of next southern standstill on 11 September 2035 at 06:40 in ♑ Capricorn.
8 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 17 September 2035 at 14:23 in ♓ Pisces 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