Waxing
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 55% and growing larger. The 8 days young Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 6 September 2038 at 01:51 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 ∠19° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 2.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1946" and ∠1904".
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2038 after 7 days on 13 September 2038 at 12:24.
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 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 478 of Meeus index or 1431 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 45 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2038. It is 10 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 3 hours and 59 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 10 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠319.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠339.4°.
4 days after point of perigee on 1 September 2038 at 22:39 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 17 September 2038 at 19:15 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 368 295 km (228 848 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 516 km (251 976 mi).
11 days after ascending node on 26 August 2038 at 03:40 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 7 September 2038 at 20:51 in ♑ Capricorn.
11 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
11 days since the previous standstill on 26 August 2038 at 08:58 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.151°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-23.232° at the point of next southern standstill on 8 September 2038 at 03:20 in ♑ Capricorn.
In 7 days on 13 September 2038 at 12:24 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.