First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 50% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 7 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 25 June 2099 at 12:00 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 ∠4° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2099 after 7 days on 2 July 2099 at 14:21.
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 4.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1888".
The Moon is 7 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1230 of Meeus index or 2183 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 51 minutes and it is 57 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 53 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 16 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 ∠294.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠320.2°.
2 days since point of perigee on 23 June 2099 at 09:41 in ♍ Virgo 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 8 July 2099 at 15:42 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 363 781 km (226 043 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 13 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 420 km (251 295 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♎ Libra at 06:00 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 8 July 2099 at 23:54 in ♓ Pisces.
6 days since the last northern standstill on 18 June 2099 at 20:43 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.404° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.409° at the point of next southern standstill on 1 July 2099 at 18:12 in ♐ Sagittarius.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 7 days on 2 July 2099 at 14:21 in ♑ Capricorn 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