First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 52% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 7 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 24 April 2045 at 07:12 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 ∠7° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2045 after 6 days on 1 May 2045 at 05:52.
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 3.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1907".
The Moon is 7 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 560 of Meeus index or 1513 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 1 minute and it is 2 hours and 22 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 1 hour and 44 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 25 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 ∠274.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠305.3°.
Moon is at perigee at 22:26 about 14 days since last apogee on 10 April 2045 at 13:48 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next apogee on 8 May 2045 at 09:24 in ♒ Aquarius.
This perigee Moon is 369 865 km (229 823 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest perigee of 2045. It is 7 357 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 491 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
11 days after ascending node on 12 April 2045 at 18:23 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 26 April 2045 at 01:40 in ♌ Leo.
2 days since the last northern standstill on 21 April 2045 at 12:18 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.903° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.817° at the point of next southern standstill on 4 May 2045 at 15:12 in ♐ Sagittarius.
11 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 1 May 2045 at 05:52 in ♏ Scorpio 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