First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 53% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 8 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 19 June 2086 at 04:33 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 first ∠2° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2086 after 7 days on 27 June 2086 at 00:04.
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 6.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 8 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1069 of Meeus index or 2022 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 50 minutes and it is 1 hour and 46 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 1 hour and 54 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 15 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 ∠62.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠95.5°.
Moon is at apogee at 09:56 about 12 days since last perigee on 7 June 2086 at 01:37 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next perigee on 2 July 2086 at 04:43 in ♓ Pisces.
This apogee Moon is 404 212 km (251 166 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest apogee of 2086. It is 1 196 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 161 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
8 days after descending node on 10 June 2086 at 21:57 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 25 June 2086 at 07:25 in ♐ Sagittarius.
8 days since the last northern standstill on 11 June 2086 at 06:00 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.467° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-22.460° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 June 2086 at 15:51 in ♐ Sagittarius.
21 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 27 June 2086 at 00:04 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