First
Quarter ♌ Leo
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 47% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♌ Leo.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 5 May 2052 at 19:05 UTC.
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Moon rises at noon and sets at midnight. It is visible high in the southern sky in early evening.
Moon is passing about ∠12° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 0.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1891" and ∠1902".
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2052 after 8 days on 13 May 2052 at 19:00.
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.
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 647 of Meeus index or 1600 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 29 minutes. It is 29 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the 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 5 hours and 15 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 54 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠352.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠7.2°.
5 days after point of perigee on 29 April 2052 at 14:35 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 13 May 2052 at 20:41 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 379 014 km (235 508 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 342 km (252 489 mi).
8 days after descending node on 27 April 2052 at 10:56 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 10 May 2052 at 10:36 in ♎ Libra.
22 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
3 days since the previous standstill on 2 May 2052 at 05:36 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.384°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.443° at the point of next southern standstill on 16 May 2052 at 13:00 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 8 days on 13 May 2052 at 19:00 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.