First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 47% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 7 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 15 October 2056 at 17:58 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 ∠20° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2056 after 7 days on 23 October 2056 at 11:46.
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 0.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1928" and ∠1925".
The Moon is 7 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 702 of Meeus index or 1655 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 20 minutes and it is 50 minutes shorter 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 3 hours and 24 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 45 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 ∠337.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠353.9°.
5 days since point of perigee on 10 October 2056 at 11:04 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 25 October 2056 at 20:58 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 371 723 km (230 978 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 235 km (252 423 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♑ Capricorn at 06:24 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 29 October 2056 at 17:10 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 14 October 2056 at 21:56 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.495° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.641° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 October 2056 at 11:13 in ♋ Cancer.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 23 October 2056 at 11:46 in ♉ Taurus 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