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 27 September 2074 at 17:59 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 ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2074 after 7 days on 5 October 2074 at 02:55.
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 2.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1962" and ∠1915".
The Moon is 7 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 924 of Meeus index or 1877 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 43 minutes and it is 1 minute shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2074. 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 3 hours and 1 minute shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 8 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 ∠314.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠335.8°.
3 days since point of perigee on 23 September 2074 at 22:46 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 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 9 October 2074 at 20:38 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 365 378 km (227 035 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 331 km (251 861 mi).
10 days after ascending node on 16 September 2074 at 20:14 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 29 September 2074 at 14:52 in ♑ Capricorn.
12 days since the last northern standstill on 15 September 2074 at 04:44 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.157° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-21.263° at the point of next southern standstill on 28 September 2074 at 04:37 in ♑ Capricorn.
10 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 5 October 2074 at 02:55 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