First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 46% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 7 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 25 November 2036 at 22:28 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 ∠1° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2036 after 8 days on 3 December 2036 at 14:08.
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 9.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1944".
The Moon is 7 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 456 of Meeus index or 1409 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 20 minutes and it is 2 hours and 40 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 2 hours and 36 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 27 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 ∠76° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠113°.
Moon is at apogee at 04:24 about 13 days since last perigee on 11 November 2036 at 18:21 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 11 days until point of next perigee on 7 December 2036 at 01:52 in ♌ Leo.
This apogee Moon is 404 313 km (251 228 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 095 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 396 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
1 day after descending node on 23 November 2036 at 22:06 in ♒ Aquarius 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 7 December 2036 at 14:24 in ♌ Leo.
4 days since the last southern standstill on 21 November 2036 at 10:22 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.497° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.561° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 December 2036 at 14:26 in ♋ Cancer.
14 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 8 days on 3 December 2036 at 14:08 in ♊ Gemini 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