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| First Quarter perigee moon at 22:18 ACDST on January 7. Precise First Quarter is midnight on the seventh and perigee is midnight on the eighth (a 24 hour distinction). | First Quarter apogee moon at 23:11 ACST on August 1 at precise First Quarter, perigee is 6 am on the 2nd (an ~7 hour distinction). The dimensions distinction might be clear in telescopes. |
Tonight (Tuesday 7 January) is a perigee first Quarter moon. Though we are likely to get enthusiastic about perigee Full Moon, perigee First Quarter Moons are fairly good too. Not solely is the moon at its closest, however there are a selection of attention-grabbing craters on terminator to see.
This isn’t a very good 12 months for the perigee First Quarter Moon, as Perigee and official first quarter are separated by 24 hours, however it’s going to nonetheless be bigger than the apogee first quarter Moon on August the first.
Labels: binocular, Moon, perigee, telescope, unaided eye
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