First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 51% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 7 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 28 March 2061 at 09:26 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 ∠10° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2061 after 7 days on 4 April 2061 at 21:47.
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 1.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1944" and ∠1922".
The Moon is 7 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 757 of Meeus index or 1710 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 42 minutes and it is 1 hour and 44 minutes longer 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 2 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 7 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 ∠324.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠343.2°.
4 days since point of perigee on 23 March 2061 at 21:11 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 8 April 2061 at 18:12 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 368 698 km (229 098 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 543 km (251 993 mi).
5 days after ascending node on 22 March 2061 at 23:32 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 5 April 2061 at 06:12 in ♎ Libra.
At 01:47 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠28.422°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-28.439° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 11 April 2061 at 10:51.
5 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 4 April 2061 at 21:47 in ♎ Libra 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