First
Quarter ♑ Capricorn
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 47% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 10 October 2005 at 19:01 UTC.
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Moon rises at noon and sets at midnight. It is visible high in the southern sky in early evening.
Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 1.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1955" and ∠1922".
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2005 after 7 days on 17 October 2005 at 12:14.
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.
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 71 of Meeus index or 1024 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 57 minutes. It is 1 hour 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°).
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 13 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 50 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠236.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠273.1°.
11 days after point of apogee on 28 September 2005 at 15:20 in ♌ Leo. 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 14 October 2005 at 13:50 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 366 620 km (227 807 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 450 km (227 080 mi).
6 days after descending node on 3 October 2005 at 16:51 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 16 October 2005 at 18:25 in ♈ Aries.
21 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
1 day since the previous standstill on 9 October 2005 at 16:42 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.604°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.583° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 October 2005 at 15:02 in ♊ Gemini.
In 7 days on 17 October 2005 at 12:14 in ♈ Aries 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.