First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 45% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 7 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 28 November 2090 at 23:40 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 ∠1° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2090 after 8 days on 7 December 2090 at 01:14.
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 8.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1782" and ∠1945".
The Moon is 7 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1124 of Meeus index or 2077 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 41 minutes and it is 2 hours and 21 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 3 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 6 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 ∠39° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠65.8°.
9 days since point of perigee on 19 November 2090 at 02:49 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 30 November 2090 at 20:42 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 402 208 km (249 920 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 549 km (251 375 mi).
11 days after ascending node on 16 November 2090 at 15:51 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 29 November 2090 at 20:13 in ♓ Pisces.
4 days since the last southern standstill on 23 November 2090 at 22:09 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.552° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.615° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 December 2090 at 10:26 in ♋ Cancer.
11 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 7 December 2090 at 01:14 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