First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 60% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 8 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 6 August 2087 at 11:43 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 ∠4° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♐ Sagittarius later.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2087 after 6 days on 14 August 2087 at 06:54.
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 6.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1892".
The Moon is 8 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1083 of Meeus index or 2036 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 48 minutes and it is 2 hours and 51 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 56 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 13 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 ∠62.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠95.4°.
1 day since point of apogee on 6 August 2087 at 16:39 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 August 2087 at 10:24 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 405 220 km (251 792 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 169 km (229 391 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♏ Scorpio at 01:46 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 20 August 2087 at 13:00 in ♉ Taurus.
12 days since the last northern standstill on 26 July 2087 at 09:39 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.684° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-20.587° at the point of next southern standstill on 9 August 2087 at 10:48 in ♐ Sagittarius.
At 01:46 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 14 August 2087 at 06:54 in ♒ Aquarius 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