First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 54% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 8 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 23 June 2053 at 02:55 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 ∠7° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2053 after 7 days on 1 July 2053 at 02:01.
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 0.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1874" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 8 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 661 of Meeus index or 1614 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 6 hours and 35 minutes and it is 40 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2053. 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 6 hours and 9 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length and it is the shortest synodic month length of 21st century.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠352.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠7.2°.
6 days since point of perigee on 16 June 2053 at 21:48 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 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 1 July 2053 at 02:40 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 382 431 km (237 632 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 396 km (252 523 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 22 June 2053 at 05:29 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 6 July 2053 at 19:46 in ♓ Pisces.
6 days since the last northern standstill on 16 June 2053 at 21:27 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.495° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.513° at the point of next southern standstill on 30 June 2053 at 12:07 in ♑ Capricorn.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 1 July 2053 at 02:01 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