First
Quarter ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 50% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 50% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 11 September 2005 at 11:37 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 ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing about ∠19° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1929"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1929" and ∠1906".
Harvest Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2005 after 6 days on 18 September 2005 at 02:01.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 18 September 2005 at 02:01
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 25 September 2005 at 06:41
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 3 October 2005 at 10:28
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 10 October 2005 at 19:01
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 70 / 1023
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 70 of Meeus index or 1023 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.65 days
Length of current 70 lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 42 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2005. It is 45 minutes longer than next lunation 71 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 58 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 5 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠205.9°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠205.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠236.1°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before perigee
10 days after point of apogee on 1 September 2005 at 02:35 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 16 September 2005 at 13:58 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 371 634 km
Moon is 371 634 km (230 923 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 5 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 360 406 km (223 946 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after its descending node on 6 September 2005 at 10:52 in ♎ Libra, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 7 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 19 September 2005 at 08:09 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
19 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
13 days after previous North standstill on 28 August 2005 at 23:42 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.476°. Next day the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.556° in the next southern standstill on 12 September 2005 at 10:54 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 6 days
After 6 days on 18 September 2005 at 02:01 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.