First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 57% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 8 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 10 December 2070 at 20:32 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 ∠3° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♈ Aries later.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2070 after 6 days on 17 December 2070 at 16:05.
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 4.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1866" and ∠1949".
The Moon is 8 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 877 of Meeus index or 1830 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 22 minutes and it is 22 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2070. 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 6 hours and 38 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 25 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 ∠163.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠187.9°.
6 days since point of apogee on 4 December 2070 at 13:36 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 17 December 2070 at 19:41 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 384 040 km (238 631 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 442 km (221 483 mi).
13 days after ascending node on 28 November 2070 at 03:19 in ♎ Libra 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 12 December 2070 at 18:04 in ♈ Aries.
7 days since the last southern standstill on 4 December 2070 at 00:15 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.543° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.546° at the point of next northern standstill on 17 December 2070 at 17:05 in ♊ Gemini.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 17 December 2070 at 16:05 in ♊ Gemini 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