First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 54% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 8 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 15 April 2092 at 01:54 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 ∠1° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2092 after 6 days on 22 April 2092 at 02:29.
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 4.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1823" and ∠1912".
The Moon is 8 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1141 of Meeus index or 2094 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 58 minutes and it is 19 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2092. 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 hours and 14 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 49 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 ∠140.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠167.3°.
4 days since point of apogee on 10 April 2092 at 15:02 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 April 2092 at 01:16 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 393 237 km (244 346 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 397 km (222 698 mi).
13 days after descending node on 2 April 2092 at 11:01 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 17 April 2092 at 00:51 in ♌ Leo.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 13 April 2092 at 15:44 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.718° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.820° at the point of next southern standstill on 26 April 2092 at 12:18 in ♑ Capricorn.
25 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 6 days on 22 April 2092 at 02:29 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