First
Quarter ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 51% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 51% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 1 April 2001 at 10:49 UTC.
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Moon phase and lunation details
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises at noon and sets at midnight. It is visible high in the southern sky in early evening.
Moon in ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠12° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1958"
Lunar disc appears visually 2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1958" and ∠1920".
Pink Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2001 after 6 days on 8 April 2001 at 03:22.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 8 April 2001 at 03:22
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 15 April 2001 at 15:31
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 23 April 2001 at 15:26
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 30 April 2001 at 17:08
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.
Lunation 15 / 968
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 15 of Meeus index or 968 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.59 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 5 minutes. It is 2 hours and 45 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 21 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 42 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠232.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠232.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠267.3°.
Moon before apogee
12 days after point of apogee on 20 March 2001 at 11:25 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 5 April 2001 at 10:04 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 366 149 km
The Moon is 366 149 km (227 514 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 815 km (226 686 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♋ Cancer at 09:01 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 12 days later on 14 April 2001 at 06:52 in ♑ Capricorn.
New draconic month
At 09:01 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon at northern standstill
At 10:45 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠23.007°. Over the next 12 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-23.123° at the point of next standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 14 April 2001 at 11:36.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 8 April 2001 at 03:22 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.
