First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 61% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 8 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 6 November 2092 at 10:40 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 ∠1° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2092 after 6 days on 14 November 2092 at 03:04.
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 1.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1909" and ∠1937".
The Moon is 8 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1148 of Meeus index or 2101 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 7 minutes and it is 27 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2092. 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 2 hours and 37 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 32 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 ∠334° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠350.8°.
6 days since point of perigee on 1 November 2092 at 08:57 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 17 November 2092 at 00:09 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 375 551 km (233 357 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 114 km (252 348 mi).
1 day after descending node on 6 November 2092 at 00:18 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 20 November 2092 at 09:44 in ♌ Leo.
3 days since the last southern standstill on 3 November 2092 at 23:31 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.608° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.732° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 November 2092 at 03:46 in ♋ Cancer.
14 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 14 November 2092 at 03:04 in ♉ Taurus 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