First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 53% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 8 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 29 September 2044 at 03:30 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 ∠11° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2044 after 7 days on 7 October 2044 at 00:30.
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 8.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1916".
The Moon is 8 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 553 of Meeus index or 1506 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 33 minutes and it is 2 hours and 48 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 11 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 58 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 ∠57.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠90.4°.
Moon is at apogee at 15:06 about 12 days since last perigee on 17 September 2044 at 12:14 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next perigee on 12 October 2044 at 15:35 in ♊ Gemini.
This apogee Moon is 404 238 km (251 182 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest apogee of 2044. It is 1 170 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 187 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
9 days after descending node on 20 September 2044 at 04:05 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 4 October 2044 at 10:56 in ♓ Pisces.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 28 September 2044 at 07:55 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.424° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.347° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 October 2044 at 04:53 in ♊ Gemini.
22 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 7 October 2044 at 00:30 in ♈ Aries 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