First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 49% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 7 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 19 November 2080 at 14:20 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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2080 after 7 days on 27 November 2080 at 05:14.
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 9.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1942".
The Moon is 7 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1000 of Meeus index or 1953 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 33 minutes and it is 2 hours and 19 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 49 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 14 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠82.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠119.5°.
1 day since point of apogee on 18 November 2080 at 12:07 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 30 November 2080 at 07:40 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 404 939 km (251 617 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 156 km (227 519 mi).
11 days after descending node on 8 November 2080 at 04:19 in ♎ Libra 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 22 November 2080 at 09:33 in ♈ Aries.
4 days since the last southern standstill on 14 November 2080 at 19:06 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.509° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.451° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 November 2080 at 22:14 in ♊ Gemini.
24 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 27 November 2080 at 05:14 in ♊ Gemini 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