First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 59% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 8 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 7 February 2052 at 17:35 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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♊ Gemini later.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2052 after 6 days on 14 February 2052 at 18:21.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunar disc appears visually 1.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1969" and ∠1945".
The Moon is 8 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 644 of Meeus index or 1597 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 6 minutes and it is 2 hours and 15 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 22 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 41 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 ∠285.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠314.8°.
1 day since point of perigee on 6 February 2052 at 18:01 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 21 February 2052 at 10:01 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 364 032 km (226 199 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 402 km (251 284 mi).
3 days after descending node on 5 February 2052 at 10:04 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 18 February 2052 at 16:11 in ♎ Libra.
11 days since the last southern standstill on 28 January 2052 at 05:17 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.646° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠18.554° at the point of next northern standstill on 10 February 2052 at 09:08 in ♊ Gemini.
16 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 14 February 2052 at 18:21 in ♌ Leo 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