First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 48% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 7 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 1 March 2096 at 15:16 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 ∠10° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2096 after 7 days on 9 March 2096 at 01:37.
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 1.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1956" and ∠1936".
The Moon is 7 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1189 of Meeus index or 2142 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 26 minutes and it is 1 hour and 37 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 2 hours and 18 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 51 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 ∠319.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠338.8°.
4 days since point of perigee on 26 February 2096 at 11:38 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 13 March 2096 at 11:32 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 366 426 km (227 687 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 299 km (251 841 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♊ Gemini at 02:31 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 15 March 2096 at 04:57 in ♐ Sagittarius.
10 days since the last southern standstill on 19 February 2096 at 20:23 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.822° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.928° at the point of next northern standstill on 3 March 2096 at 15:30 in ♋ Cancer.
At 02:31 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
In 7 days on 9 March 2096 at 01:37 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