First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 53% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 7 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 26 July 2069 at 05:30 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 ∠7° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2069 after 7 days on 2 August 2069 at 23:44.
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 6.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1889".
The Moon is 7 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 860 of Meeus index or 1813 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 50 minutes and it is 2 hours and 42 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 54 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 15 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 ∠66.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠99.7°.
Moon is at apogee at 04:43 about 12 days since last perigee on 13 July 2069 at 15:08 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next perigee on 7 August 2069 at 17:00 in ♈ Aries.
This apogee Moon is 404 051 km (251 066 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest apogee of 2069. It is 1 357 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 0 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon is in ascending node in ♏ Scorpio at 17:40 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 9 August 2069 at 03:46 in ♉ Taurus.
10 days since the last northern standstill on 15 July 2069 at 22:08 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.867° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.783° at the point of next southern standstill on 30 July 2069 at 03:42 in ♐ Sagittarius.
At 17:40 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 7 days on 2 August 2069 at 23:44 in ♒ Aquarius 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