Waxing
Gibbous ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 59% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 59% and growing larger. The 8 days young Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 14 July 2005 at 15:20 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 is entering ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1862"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1862" and ∠1888".
Buck Moon after 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2005 after 5 days on 21 July 2005 at 11:00.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 21 July 2005 at 11:00
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 28 July 2005 at 03:19
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 5 August 2005 at 03:05
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 13 August 2005 at 02:39
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 68 / 1021
The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 68 of Meeus index or 1021 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.63 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 2 minutes. It is 39 minutes shorter 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 2 hours and 18 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 45 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠158.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠158.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠181.9°.
Moon before apogee
6 days after point of apogee on 8 July 2005 at 17:39 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 21 July 2005 at 19:44 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 385 037 km
The Moon is 385 037 km (239 251 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 160 km (221 929 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 14 July 2005 at 06:35 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 26 July 2005 at 17:58 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
15 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 5 July 2005 at 13:08 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.208°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.265° at the point of next southern standstill on 19 July 2005 at 17:52 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 5 days
In 5 days on 21 July 2005 at 11:00 in ♑ Capricorn 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.
