First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 45% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 7 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 31 October 2071 at 00:07 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 first ∠2° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2071 after 8 days on 7 November 2071 at 18:47.
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 8.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1933".
The Moon is 7 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 888 of Meeus index or 1841 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 10 minutes and it is 2 hours and 37 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 26 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 37 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 ∠67.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠102.9°.
Moon is at apogee at 19:30 about 12 days since last perigee on 18 October 2071 at 05:18 in ♌ Leo 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 12 November 2071 at 01:07 in ♋ Cancer.
This apogee Moon is 404 279 km (251 207 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest apogee of 2071. It is 1 129 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 228 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
9 days after ascending node on 20 October 2071 at 21:10 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 4 November 2071 at 02:46 in ♓ Pisces.
2 days since the last southern standstill on 27 October 2071 at 22:38 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.256° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.336° at the point of next northern standstill on 11 November 2071 at 00:34 in ♋ Cancer.
9 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 7 November 2071 at 18:47 in ♉ Taurus 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