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 14 December 2094 at 18:17 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 ∠20° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2094 after 7 days on 21 December 2094 at 19:56.
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 1.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1950".
The Moon is 7 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1174 of Meeus index or 2127 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 43 minutes and it is 1 hour and 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 59 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 4 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 ∠287.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠317.1°.
1 day since point of perigee on 13 December 2094 at 11:23 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 28 December 2094 at 08:42 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 363 317 km (225 755 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 13 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 647 km (251 436 mi).
5 days after descending node on 8 December 2094 at 17:21 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 21 December 2094 at 16:09 in ♊ Gemini.
4 days since the last southern standstill on 9 December 2094 at 16:27 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.130° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.122° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 December 2094 at 16:45 in ♋ Cancer.
20 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 21 December 2094 at 19:56 in ♊ Gemini 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