First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 51% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 7 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 25 July 2088 at 09:54 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 ∠4° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2088 after 8 days on 2 August 2088 at 13:39.
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 4.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1807" and ∠1889".
The Moon is 7 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1095 of Meeus index or 2048 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 37 minutes and it is 2 hours and 5 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 5 hours and 7 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 2 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 ∠18.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠37.4°.
8 days since point of perigee on 17 July 2088 at 05:29 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 29 July 2088 at 13:38 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 396 587 km (246 428 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 453 km (251 937 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♏ Scorpio at 07:29 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next descending node later on 8 August 2088 at 17:40 in ♈ Aries.
9 days since the last northern standstill on 16 July 2088 at 02:03 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.354° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.292° at the point of next southern standstill on 29 July 2088 at 12:39 in ♐ Sagittarius.
At 07:29 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 8 days on 2 August 2088 at 13:39 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