First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 51% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 7 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 24 June 2080 at 09:12 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 ∠5° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2080 after 7 days on 2 July 2080 at 04:09.
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 1.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1910" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 7 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 995 of Meeus index or 1948 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 6 hours and 40 minutes and it is 12 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2080. 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 6 hours and 4 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 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 ∠341.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠357°.
5 days since point of perigee on 18 June 2080 at 21:12 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 3 July 2080 at 22:07 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 375 214 km (233 147 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 236 km (252 423 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♎ Libra at 18:02 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 9 July 2080 at 07:56 in ♈ Aries.
6 days since the last northern standstill on 18 June 2080 at 01:30 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.379° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.365° at the point of next southern standstill on 1 July 2080 at 08:40 in ♑ Capricorn.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 2 July 2080 at 04:09 in ♑ Capricorn 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