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 4 June 2052 at 06:49 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 ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♎ Libra later.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2052 after 6 days on 12 June 2052 at 10:27.
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 4.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1814" and ∠1891".
The Moon is 8 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 648 of Meeus index or 1601 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 1 minute and it is 41 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2052. 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 5 hours and 44 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 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 ∠7.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠23.2°.
8 days since point of perigee on 28 May 2052 at 00:39 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 10 June 2052 at 00:46 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 395 077 km (245 489 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 066 km (252 318 mi).
11 days after descending node on 24 May 2052 at 19:07 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 6 June 2052 at 13:15 in ♎ Libra.
6 days since the last northern standstill on 29 May 2052 at 16:35 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.475° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.514° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 June 2052 at 20:05 in ♐ Sagittarius.
26 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 12 June 2052 at 10:27 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