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 29 March 2099 at 17:38 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 ∠6° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2099 after 6 days on 5 April 2099 at 08:37.
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 0.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1913" and ∠1921".
The Moon is 7 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1227 of Meeus index or 2180 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 43 minutes and it is 2 hours and 56 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 3 hours and 59 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 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 ∠199.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠227.5°.
9 days since point of apogee on 19 March 2099 at 19:55 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 4 April 2099 at 03:23 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 374 686 km (232 819 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 339 km (223 283 mi).
7 days after ascending node on 22 March 2099 at 06:44 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 4 April 2099 at 16:08 in ♍ Virgo.
At 02:47 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠28.678°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2099. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-28.656° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 10 April 2099 at 17:12.
7 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 5 April 2099 at 08:37 in ♎ Libra 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