First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 62% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 8 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 16 June 2051 at 05:55 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 ∠10° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2051 after 6 days on 24 June 2051 at 06:14.
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 6.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 8 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 636 of Meeus index or 1589 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 13 minutes and it is 1 hour and 43 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 3 hours and 31 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 38 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 ∠43.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠70.2°.
Moon is at apogee at 22:14 about 11 days since last perigee on 6 June 2051 at 01:20 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next perigee on 2 July 2051 at 20:59 in ♈ Aries.
This apogee Moon is 404 346 km (251 249 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 062 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 363 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
11 days after descending node on 5 June 2051 at 14:37 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 19 June 2051 at 06:50 in ♏ Scorpio.
8 days since the last northern standstill on 9 June 2051 at 02:11 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.227° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.227° at the point of next southern standstill on 23 June 2051 at 11:15 in ♐ Sagittarius.
25 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 24 June 2051 at 06:14 in ♑ Capricorn 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