First
Quarter ♌ Leo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 49% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 49% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 16 April 2005 at 14:37 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 ∠25° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1912".
Pink Moon after 7 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2005 after 7 days on 24 April 2005 at 10:06.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 24 April 2005 at 10:06
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 1 May 2005 at 06:24
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 8 May 2005 at 08:45
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 16 May 2005 at 08:56
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 65 / 1018
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 65 of Meeus index or 1018 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.51 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 13 minutes. It is 57 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the 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 31 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 38 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠62.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠62.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠96.6°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 18:41. It is 12 days after previous perigee on 4 April 2005 at 11:10 in ♒ Aquarius. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 12 days, until point of next perigee on 29 April 2005 at 09:59 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 404 304 km
This apogee Moon is 404 304 km (251 223 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest apogee of 2005. It is 1 104 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 253 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
7 days after ascending node on 9 April 2005 at 02:59 in ♈ Aries. 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 23 April 2005 at 13:30 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
7 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 14 April 2005 at 16:38 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.381°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.359° at the point of next southern standstill on 28 April 2005 at 15:55 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 24 April 2005 at 10:06 in ♏ Scorpio 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.
