Waxing
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 56% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 56% and growing larger. The 8 days young Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 23 May 2007 at 21:03 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 ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing about ∠10° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1797"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1797" and ∠1895".
Strawberry Moon after 7 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2007 after 7 days on 1 June 2007 at 01:04.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 1 June 2007 at 01:04
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 8 June 2007 at 11:43
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 15 June 2007 at 03:13
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 22 June 2007 at 13:15
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 91 / 1044
The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 91 of Meeus index or 1044 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.32 days
Length of current 91 lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 46 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2007. It is 1 hour and 5 minutes shorter than next lunation 92 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 58 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 11 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠19.8°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠19.8°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠38.7°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before apogee
8 days after point of perigee on 15 May 2007 at 15:10 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 3 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 27 May 2007 at 22:01 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 398 953 km
Moon is 398 953 km (247 898 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 3 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 458 km (251 940 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♍ Virgo at 17:16 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from North to South. Moon will follow the southern part of its orbit for the next 14 days to meet ascending node on 8 June 2007 at 00:35 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
12 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the middle to the last part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
5 days after previous North standstill on 18 May 2007 at 23:04 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.287°. Next 8 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.219° in the next southern standstill on 2 June 2007 at 09:31 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 7 days
After 7 days on 1 June 2007 at 01:04 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.