First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 61% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 8 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 3 March 2085 at 07:16 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 ∠2° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2085 after 7 days on 11 March 2085 at 12:26.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunar disc appears visually 7.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1793" and ∠1934".
The Moon is 8 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1053 of Meeus index or 2006 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 5 minutes and it is 17 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2085. 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 39 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 30 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 ∠16.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠35.4°.
9 days since point of perigee on 23 February 2085 at 06:52 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 7 March 2085 at 14:41 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 399 794 km (248 420 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 701 km (252 091 mi).
12 days after ascending node on 20 February 2085 at 11:49 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 5 March 2085 at 09:49 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 3 March 2085 at 19:04 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.652° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.502° at the point of next southern standstill on 18 March 2085 at 07:54 in ♐ Sagittarius.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 11 March 2085 at 12:26 in ♍ Virgo 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