First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 58% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 8 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 6 November 2073 at 15:42 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 ∠25° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2073 after 7 days on 14 November 2073 at 19:55.
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 6.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1823" and ∠1937".
The Moon is 8 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 913 of Meeus index or 1866 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 59 minutes and it is 1 hour and 44 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 2 hours and 45 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 24 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 ∠6.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠22.5°.
8 days since point of perigee on 30 October 2073 at 10:23 in ♏ Scorpio 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 12 November 2073 at 10:04 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 393 244 km (244 350 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 195 km (252 398 mi).
1 day after descending node on 6 November 2073 at 19:59 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 21 November 2073 at 10:04 in ♌ Leo.
3 days since the last southern standstill on 3 November 2073 at 23:06 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.020° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.145° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 November 2073 at 15:10 in ♋ Cancer.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 14 November 2073 at 19:55 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