First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 53% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 8 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 10 February 2068 at 05:20 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 ∠25° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2068 after 7 days on 18 February 2068 at 04:38.
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 2.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1889" and ∠1944".
The Moon is 8 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 842 of Meeus index or 1795 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 53 minutes and it is 39 minutes longer 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 2 hours and 51 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 18 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 ∠348.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠3.9°.
6 days since point of perigee on 4 February 2068 at 05:46 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 18 February 2068 at 20:46 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 379 528 km (235 828 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 494 km (252 584 mi).
11 days after ascending node on 30 January 2068 at 02:06 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 11 February 2068 at 13:12 in ♊ Gemini.
10 days since the last southern standstill on 30 January 2068 at 17:55 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.138° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠22.052° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 February 2068 at 08:19 in ♊ Gemini.
11 days 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 7 days on 18 February 2068 at 04:38 in ♌ Leo 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