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

First Quarter in Aquarius

First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 64% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 9 days young.

* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 1 November 2098 at 00:47 UTC.

Moonrise and moonset

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

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♒ Aquarius

Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.

Beaver Moon after 6 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2098 after 6 days on 9 November 2098 at 00:15.

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 ∠1768"

Lunar disc appears visually 9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1934".

Lunation 1222 / 2175

The Moon is 9 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1222 of Meeus index or 2175 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.54 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 2 minutes and it is 2 hours and 31 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 18 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 45 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠48.5°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠48.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠78.8°.

Moon at apogee

Moon is at apogee at 03:39 about 11 days since last perigee on 21 October 2098 at 07:37 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next perigee on 16 November 2098 at 08:08 in ♌ Leo.

Distance to Moon 404 370 km

This apogee Moon is 404 370 km (251 264 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 038 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 339 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.

Moon before ascending node

10 days after descending node on 23 October 2098 at 06:35 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 6 November 2098 at 11:42 in ♈ Aries.

Moon after southern standstill

4 days since the last southern standstill on 29 October 2098 at 00:40 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.513° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.455° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 November 2098 at 08:09 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

23 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.

Syzygy in 6 days

In 6 days on 9 November 2098 at 00:15 in ♉ Taurus 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