First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 62% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 8 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 10 December 2089 at 04:52 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 ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2089 after 6 days on 17 December 2089 at 15:37.
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 8.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1793" and ∠1949".
The Moon is 8 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1112 of Meeus index or 2065 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 45 minutes and it is 1 hour and 52 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 4 hours and 1 minute longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 2 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠99° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠135.1°.
3 days since point of apogee on 8 December 2089 at 04:46 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 December 2089 at 22:47 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 399 652 km (248 332 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 543 km (225 895 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♈ Aries at 15:27 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 24 December 2089 at 10:45 in ♎ Libra.
7 days since the last southern standstill on 3 December 2089 at 12:44 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.433° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.446° at the point of next northern standstill on 17 December 2089 at 19:41 in ♊ Gemini.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 17 December 2089 at 15:37 in ♊ Gemini 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