First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 50% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 7 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 15 February 2092 at 11:40 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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♊ Gemini later.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2092 after 7 days on 23 February 2092 at 05:29.
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 9.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1942".
The Moon is 7 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1139 of Meeus index or 2092 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 54 minutes and it is 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 2 hours and 10 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 53 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 ∠69.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠106.4°.
Moon is at apogee at 03:05 about 12 days since last perigee on 2 February 2092 at 09:05 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 11 days until point of next perigee on 27 February 2092 at 05:27 in ♏ Scorpio.
This apogee Moon is 404 414 km (251 291 mi) away from Earth. It is 994 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 295 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
7 days after descending node on 7 February 2092 at 23:08 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 22 February 2092 at 09:49 in ♌ Leo.
10 days since the last southern standstill on 4 February 2092 at 17:30 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.423° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.419° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 February 2092 at 23:14 in ♋ Cancer.
20 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 23 February 2092 at 05:29 in ♍ Virgo 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