First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 56% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 8 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 6 October 2084 at 22:42 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 ∠22° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2084 after 6 days on 13 October 2084 at 20:12.
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 2.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1921".
The Moon is 8 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1048 of Meeus index or 2001 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 30 minutes and it is 38 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 14 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 55 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 ∠268.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠301.9°.
14 days since point of apogee on 23 September 2084 at 10:54 in ♋ Cancer 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 8 October 2084 at 09:29 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 363 298 km (225 743 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 624 km (229 674 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♑ Capricorn at 00:35 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next descending node later on 20 October 2084 at 10:21 in ♋ Cancer.
2 days since the last southern standstill on 5 October 2084 at 04:48 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.185° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.073° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 October 2084 at 09:41 in ♊ Gemini.
At 00:35 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 6 days on 13 October 2084 at 20:12 in ♈ Aries 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