First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 47% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 7 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 19 January 2070 at 18:31 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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♉ Taurus later.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2070 after 7 days on 26 January 2070 at 12:59.
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 0.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1961" and ∠1950".
The Moon is 7 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 866 of Meeus index or 1819 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 30 minutes and it is 2 hours and 30 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 2 hours and 46 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 17 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠244.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠282°.
12 days since point of apogee on 7 January 2070 at 04:45 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 January 2070 at 04:43 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 365 439 km (227 073 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 854 km (227 953 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♈ Aries at 18:41 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 1 February 2070 at 20:26 in ♎ Libra.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 10 January 2070 at 01:11 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.284° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.199° at the point of next northern standstill on 23 January 2070 at 11:28 in ♊ Gemini.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 26 January 2070 at 12:59 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