First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 46% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 7 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 8 September 2092 at 20:15 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 about ∠12° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2092 after 7 days on 15 September 2092 at 20:33.
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 3.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1905".
The Moon is 7 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1146 of Meeus index or 2099 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 1 minute and it is 48 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 1 hour and 43 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 26 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 ∠282.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠312.2°.
Moon is at perigee at 07:44 about 13 days since last apogee on 25 August 2092 at 18:58 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next apogee on 22 September 2092 at 14:18 in ♊ Gemini.
This perigee Moon is 369 784 km (229 773 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest perigee of 2092. It is 7 276 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 572 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
8 days after ascending node on 30 August 2092 at 21:39 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 12 September 2092 at 21:06 in ♒ Aquarius.
11 days since the last northern standstill on 28 August 2092 at 04:01 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.103° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-20.164° at the point of next southern standstill on 10 September 2092 at 11:11 in ♑ Capricorn.
8 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 15 September 2092 at 20:33 in ♓ Pisces 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