First
Quarter ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 52% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 52% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 22 July 2007 at 06:29 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 ∠2° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1889".
Buck Moon after 7 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2007 after 7 days on 30 July 2007 at 00:48.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 30 July 2007 at 00:48
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 5 August 2007 at 21:20
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 12 August 2007 at 23:03
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 20 August 2007 at 23:54
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 93 / 1046
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 93 of Meeus index or 1046 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.46 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 59 minutes. It is 2 hours and 43 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 1 hour and 45 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 24 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠64.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠64.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠97.3°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 08:43. It is 12 days after previous perigee on 9 July 2007 at 21:38 in ♉ Taurus. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 12 days, until point of next perigee on 3 August 2007 at 23:52 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 404 152 km
This apogee Moon is 404 152 km (251 128 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest apogee of 2007. It is 1 256 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 101 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
4 days after descending node on 18 July 2007 at 00:18 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 1 August 2007 at 06:03 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
17 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, 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 12 July 2007 at 16:38 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.251°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.300° at the point of next southern standstill on 26 July 2007 at 23:22 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 30 July 2007 at 00:48 in ♒ Aquarius 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.
