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 25 April 2083 at 05:54 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 ∠8° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2083 after 6 days on 2 May 2083 at 02:29.
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 3.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1843" and ∠1907".
The Moon is 7 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1030 of Meeus index or 1983 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 4 minutes and it is 40 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 3 hours and 20 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 43 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 ∠156.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠180.3°.
5 days since point of apogee on 19 April 2083 at 13:44 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 2 May 2083 at 12:57 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 388 828 km (241 607 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 149 km (221 922 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♌ Leo at 22:02 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 8 May 2083 at 08:03 in ♒ Aquarius.
3 days since the last northern standstill on 21 April 2083 at 19:08 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.084° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.010° at the point of next southern standstill on 4 May 2083 at 19:46 in ♐ Sagittarius.
14 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 2 May 2083 at 02:29 in ♏ Scorpio 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