First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 52% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 7 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 10 February 2087 at 06:38 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 ∠25° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2087 after 7 days on 17 February 2087 at 13:34.
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 0.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1962" and ∠1944".
The Moon is 7 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1077 of Meeus index or 2030 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 35 minutes and it is 1 hour and 54 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 1 hour and 9 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours 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 ∠308.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠330.8°.
3 days since point of perigee on 6 February 2087 at 21:41 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 22 February 2087 at 20:55 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 365 305 km (226 990 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 929 km (251 611 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♉ Taurus at 21:48 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 25 February 2087 at 00:02 in ♐ Sagittarius.
11 days since the last southern standstill on 30 January 2087 at 06:45 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.469° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠21.361° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 February 2087 at 05:55 in ♊ Gemini.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 17 February 2087 at 13:34 in ♌ Leo 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