First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 53% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 7 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 3 July 2082 at 06:59 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 about ∠15° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2082 after 6 days on 10 July 2082 at 03:10.
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 4.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1887".
The Moon is 7 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1020 of Meeus index or 1973 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 38 minutes and it is 1 hour and 14 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 2 hours and 6 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 3 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 ∠265.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠298.1°.
13 days since point of apogee on 19 June 2082 at 21:53 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 4 July 2082 at 20:11 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 363 380 km (225 794 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 135 km (229 370 mi).
3 days after descending node on 30 June 2082 at 03:43 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 13 July 2082 at 02:53 in ♒ Aquarius.
8 days since the last northern standstill on 25 June 2082 at 10:57 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.827° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.861° at the point of next southern standstill on 8 July 2082 at 10:27 in ♐ Sagittarius.
17 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 10 July 2082 at 03:10 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