First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 56% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 8 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 1 April 2039 at 21:55 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 ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2039 after 6 days on 9 April 2039 at 02:53.
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 6.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1802" and ∠1919".
The Moon is 8 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 485 of Meeus index or 1438 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 35 minutes and it is 28 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 51 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 12 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 ∠120.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠151.8°.
3 days since point of apogee on 29 March 2039 at 17:29 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 April 2039 at 17:31 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 397 725 km (247 135 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 831 km (224 210 mi).
2 days after ascending node on 31 March 2039 at 11:40 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 13 April 2039 at 11:46 in ♐ Sagittarius.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 1 April 2039 at 20:16 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.377° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.485° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 April 2039 at 17:09 in ♑ Capricorn.
2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 9 April 2039 at 02:53 in ♎ Libra 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