First
Quarter ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 46% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 46% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♌ Leo.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 19 May 2002 at 19:42 UTC.
Moon phases for next 7 days
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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 ♌ Leo
Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1953"
Lunar disc appears visually 3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1953" and ∠1896".
Flower Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2002 after 6 days on 26 May 2002 at 11:51.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 26 May 2002 at 11:51
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 3 June 2002 at 00:05
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 10 June 2002 at 23:47
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 18 June 2002 at 00:29
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 29 / 982
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 29 of Meeus index or 982 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.54 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 1 minute. It is 2 hours and 21 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 17 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 46 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠233.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠233.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠268.1°.
Moon before apogee
11 days after point of apogee on 7 May 2002 at 19:15 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 May 2002 at 15:31 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 366 950 km
The Moon is 366 950 km (228 012 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 985 km (226 791 mi).
Moon after ascending node
4 days after ascending node on 14 May 2002 at 13:00 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 27 May 2002 at 09:39 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
4 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
3 days since the previous standstill on 16 May 2002 at 07:53 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.039°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.056° at the point of next southern standstill on 29 May 2002 at 02:39 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 26 May 2002 at 11:51 in ♐ Sagittarius 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.
