First Quarter Moon
First Quarter MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

First Quarter in Capricorn

First Quarter on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 50% and growing larger. Lunar cycle is 7 days young.

* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 30 September 2090 at 12:21 UTC.

Moonrise and moonset

Moon rises at noon and sets at midnight. It is visible high in the southern sky in early evening.

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♑ Capricorn

Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

Hunter Moon after 8 days

Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2090 after 8 days on 8 October 2090 at 15:54.

Neap tide

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1849"

Lunar disc appears visually 3.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1849" and ∠1917".

Lunation 1122 / 2075

The Moon is 7 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1122 of Meeus index or 2075 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.38 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 6 minutes and it is 1 hour and 33 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°).

Lunation length shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 38 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 31 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠3.8°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠3.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠19.7°.

Moon before apogee

7 days since point of perigee on 23 September 2090 at 11:39 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 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 6 October 2090 at 16:44 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 387 721 km

The Moon is 387 721 km (240 919 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 081 km (252 327 mi).

Moon before descending node

7 days after ascending node on 23 September 2090 at 00:57 in ♍ Virgo 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 6 October 2090 at 13:25 in ♓ Pisces.

Moon at southern standstill

At 02:41 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-18.246°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠18.312° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 14 October 2090 at 20:55.

Draconic month

7 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 8 days

In 8 days on 8 October 2090 at 15:54 in ♈ Aries 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

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