First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 49% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 7 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 20 June 2037 at 13:45 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 ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♎ Libra later.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2037 after 7 days on 27 June 2037 at 15:20.
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 4.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 7 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 463 of Meeus index or 1416 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 22 minutes and it is 1 hour and 12 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 3 hours and 23 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 47 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 ∠292.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠318.7°.
1 day since point of perigee on 18 June 2037 at 16:37 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 3 July 2037 at 19:50 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 363 620 km (225 943 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 13 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 478 km (251 331 mi).
4 days after ascending node on 16 June 2037 at 07:41 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 29 June 2037 at 10:01 in ♑ Capricorn.
5 days since the last northern standstill on 15 June 2037 at 01:37 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.359° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-21.369° at the point of next southern standstill on 28 June 2037 at 01:35 in ♑ Capricorn.
4 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 27 June 2037 at 15:20 in ♐ Sagittarius 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