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 17 January 2054 at 02:14 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 first ∠2° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2054 after 6 days on 23 January 2054 at 20:08.
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 4.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1871" and ∠1950".
The Moon is 8 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 668 of Meeus index or 1621 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 40 minutes and it is 1 hour and 8 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2054. 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 6 hours and 56 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 7 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 ∠168.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠193.2°.
7 days since point of apogee on 10 January 2054 at 05:56 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 January 2054 at 19:38 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 383 128 km (238 065 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 512 km (221 526 mi).
4 days after descending node on 13 January 2054 at 02:36 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 26 January 2054 at 01:32 in ♍ Virgo.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 7 January 2054 at 19:44 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.772° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.720° at the point of next northern standstill on 21 January 2054 at 23:45 in ♊ Gemini.
18 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 23 January 2054 at 20:08 in ♋ Cancer 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