First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 52% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 7 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 5 February 2036 at 07:01 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 ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2036 after 6 days on 11 February 2036 at 22:09.
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 1.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1917" and ∠1946".
The Moon is 7 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 446 of Meeus index or 1399 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 42 minutes and it is 2 hours and 45 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2036. 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 5 hours and 58 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 5 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 ∠195.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠223.9°.
9 days since point of apogee on 26 January 2036 at 16:05 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 February 2036 at 20:55 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 373 931 km (232 350 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 657 km (222 859 mi).
6 days after descending node on 29 January 2036 at 22:45 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 12 February 2036 at 03:38 in ♌ Leo.
10 days since the last southern standstill on 25 January 2036 at 21:59 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.277° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.249° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 February 2036 at 23:26 in ♋ Cancer.
20 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 11 February 2036 at 22:09 in ♌ Leo 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