First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 45% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 7 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 25 August 2096 at 23:56 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 ∠2° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♐ Sagittarius later.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2096 after 8 days on 2 September 2096 at 15:36.
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 7.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1899".
The Moon is 7 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1195 of Meeus index or 2148 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 10 minutes and it is 3 hours and 8 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 34 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 35 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 ∠76.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠110.9°.
Moon is at apogee at 08:09 about 13 days since last perigee on 12 August 2096 at 00:11 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 11 days until point of next perigee on 6 September 2096 at 10:00 in ♉ Taurus.
This apogee Moon is 404 140 km (251 121 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest apogee of 2096. It is 1 268 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 89 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon is in descending node in ♏ Scorpio at 06:52 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 7 September 2096 at 18:11 in ♉ Taurus.
10 days since the last northern standstill on 14 August 2096 at 16:29 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.461° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.564° at the point of next southern standstill on 28 August 2096 at 21:09 in ♑ Capricorn.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 8 days on 2 September 2096 at 15:36 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