First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 63% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 8 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 19 September 2072 at 04:58 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 ∠13° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2072 after 6 days on 27 September 2072 at 08:43.
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 5.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1816" and ∠1911".
The Moon is 8 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 899 of Meeus index or 1852 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 48 minutes and it is 1 hour and 38 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 3 hours and 56 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 13 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 ∠5.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠21.6°.
8 days since point of perigee on 12 September 2072 at 01:13 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 25 September 2072 at 03:10 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 394 621 km (245 206 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 005 km (252 280 mi).
8 days after ascending node on 11 September 2072 at 16:07 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 25 September 2072 at 05:16 in ♓ Pisces.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 19 September 2072 at 20:57 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.581° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 14 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.655° at the point of next northern standstill on 4 October 2072 at 13:44 in ♊ Gemini.
8 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 6 days on 27 September 2072 at 08:43 in ♈ Aries 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