First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 59% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 8 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 13 September 2097 at 14:22 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 first ∠2° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2097 after 7 days on 21 September 2097 at 13:00.
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 7.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1908".
The Moon is 8 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1208 of Meeus index or 2161 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 12 minutes and it is 3 hours and 11 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 1 hour and 33 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 37 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 ∠47.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠76.4°.
Moon is at apogee at 20:28 about 11 days since last perigee on 2 September 2097 at 23:07 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next perigee on 29 September 2097 at 06:20 in ♋ Cancer.
This apogee Moon is 404 346 km (251 249 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 062 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 363 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
4 days after descending node on 9 September 2097 at 17:26 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 24 September 2097 at 02:09 in ♉ Taurus.
At 18:59 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-27.835°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠27.911° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 28 September 2097 at 13:01.
17 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 21 September 2097 at 13:00 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