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 11 February 2076 at 18:35 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 ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2076 after 7 days on 19 February 2076 at 23:49.
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 6.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1817" and ∠1944".
The Moon is 8 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 941 of Meeus index or 1894 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 23 minutes and it is longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2076. 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 21 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 48 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 ∠9.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠26.4°.
8 days since point of perigee on 4 February 2076 at 07:52 in ♒ Aquarius 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 17 February 2076 at 01:30 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 394 499 km (245 130 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 053 km (252 310 mi).
10 days after descending node on 2 February 2076 at 04:01 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 15 February 2076 at 04:47 in ♋ Cancer.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 2 February 2076 at 15:14 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.547° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.589° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 February 2076 at 19:53 in ♋ Cancer.
24 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 19 February 2076 at 23:49 in ♌ Leo 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