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
The length of the 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 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 4 hours and 58 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 11 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠19.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠19.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠38.7°.
Moon before perigee
8 days after point of perigee on 15 May 2007 at 15:10 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 27 May 2007 at 22:01 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 398 953 km
The Moon is 398 953 km (247 898 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 458 km (251 940 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♍ Virgo at 17:16 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 14 days later on 8 June 2007 at 00:35 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
12 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
5 days since the previous standstill on 18 May 2007 at 23:04 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.287°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.219° at the point of next southern standstill on 2 June 2007 at 09:31 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 1 June 2007 at 01:04 in ♐ Sagittarius 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.
