First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 60% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 8 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 26 September 2066 at 14:19 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 ∠17° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2066 after 6 days on 3 October 2066 at 12:25.
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 2.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1915".
The Moon is 8 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 825 of Meeus index or 1778 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 55 minutes and it is 32 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 49 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 20 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 ∠272.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠304.7°.
Moon is at perigee at 12:48 about 14 days since last apogee on 12 September 2066 at 22:49 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next apogee on 10 October 2066 at 18:32 in ♋ Cancer.
This perigee Moon is 369 827 km (229 800 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest perigee of 2066. It is 7 319 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 529 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
1 day after ascending node on 26 September 2066 at 15:21 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 10 October 2066 at 02:19 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 25 September 2066 at 13:22 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.274° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.153° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 October 2066 at 22:14 in ♊ Gemini.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 3 October 2066 at 12:25 in ♈ Aries 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