First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 60% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 8 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 11 June 2046 at 15:27 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 first ∠3° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2046 after 6 days on 18 June 2046 at 13:10.
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 ∠1889".
The Moon is 8 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 574 of Meeus index or 1527 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 16 minutes and it is 1 hour and 29 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 2 hours and 28 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 41 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° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠304.9°.
Moon is at perigee at 03:54 about 14 days since last apogee on 28 May 2046 at 21:55 in ♓ Pisces 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 25 June 2046 at 16:40 in ♓ Pisces.
This perigee Moon is 369 663 km (229 698 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest perigee of 2046. It is 7 155 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 693 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
4 days after descending node on 8 June 2046 at 09:42 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 21 June 2046 at 10:29 in ♒ Aquarius.
7 days since the last northern standstill on 5 June 2046 at 05:17 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.677° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.680° at the point of next southern standstill on 18 June 2046 at 02:43 in ♐ Sagittarius.
18 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 18 June 2046 at 13:10 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