First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 47% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 7 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 26 April 2091 at 18:20 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 ∠3° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2091 after 6 days on 3 May 2091 at 09:46.
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 0.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1895" and ∠1906".
The Moon is 7 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1129 of Meeus index or 2082 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 47 minutes and it is 2 hours and 13 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 3 hours and 3 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours 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 ∠189.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠214.7°.
8 days since point of apogee on 17 April 2091 at 19:25 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 2 May 2091 at 14:03 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 378 223 km (235 017 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 058 km (222 487 mi).
11 days after descending node on 14 April 2091 at 19:58 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 29 April 2091 at 04:04 in ♍ Virgo.
2 days since the last northern standstill on 24 April 2091 at 07:29 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.701° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.782° at the point of next southern standstill on 6 May 2091 at 22:47 in ♐ Sagittarius.
24 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 3 May 2091 at 09:46 in ♏ Scorpio 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