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 August 2061 at 01:18 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 ∠6° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2061 after 7 days on 30 August 2061 at 22:18.
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 7.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1898".
The Moon is 8 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 762 of Meeus index or 1715 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 58 minutes and it is 3 hours and 6 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 1 hour and 46 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 23 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 ∠53.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠84.5°.
Moon is at apogee at 20:28 about 12 days since last perigee on 11 August 2061 at 19:47 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next perigee on 6 September 2061 at 10:37 in ♊ Gemini.
This apogee Moon is 404 229 km (251 176 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest apogee of 2061. It is 1 179 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 178 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
4 days after descending node on 19 August 2061 at 00:57 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 2 September 2061 at 08:31 in ♈ Aries.
11 days since the last northern standstill on 11 August 2061 at 20:45 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.426° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.503° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 August 2061 at 17:13 in ♐ Sagittarius.
17 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 30 August 2061 at 22:18 in ♓ Pisces 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