First
Quarter ♎ Libra
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 47% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♎ Libra.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 30 June 2036 at 18:13 UTC.
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Moon rises at noon and sets at midnight. It is visible high in the southern sky in early evening.
Moon is passing about ∠6° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1926" and ∠1887".
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2036 after 7 days on 8 July 2036 at 11:19.
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.
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 451 of Meeus index or 1404 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 7 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2036. It is 11 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the 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 37 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 32 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠338.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠354.1°.
5 days after point of perigee on 25 June 2036 at 10:31 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 10 July 2036 at 16:20 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 372 251 km (231 306 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 005 km (252 280 mi).
3 days after ascending node on 27 June 2036 at 02:46 in ♌ Leo. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 11 July 2036 at 00:53 in ♒ Aquarius.
3 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
5 days since the previous standstill on 24 June 2036 at 13:24 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.895°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.902° at the point of next southern standstill on 7 July 2036 at 21:09 in ♑ Capricorn.
In 7 days on 8 July 2036 at 11:19 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.