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Moon phase on 19 October 2007 Friday is First Quarter, 7 days young Moon is in Capricorn.

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Lunar calendar 2007 | October 2007

First Quarter phase
First Quarter phase
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 ♑ Capricorn.

* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 19 October 2007 at 08:33 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 ♑ Capricorn

Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1848"

Lunar disc appears visually 4.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1848" and ∠1927".

Hunter Moon after 6 days

Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2007 after 6 days on 26 October 2007 at 04:52.

Upcoming main Moon phases

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 96 / 1049

The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 96 of Meeus index or 1049 from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.75 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 2 minutes. It is 35 minutes shorter 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°).

Lunation length longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 18 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 45 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit position on

True anomaly ∠159.5°

At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠159.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠183.8°.

Moon after apogee

6 days after point of apogee on 13 October 2007 at 09:53 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 26 October 2007 at 11:51 in ♉ Taurus.

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Distance to Moon 387 967 km

The Moon is 387 967 km (241 072 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 755 km (221 677 mi).

Moon before ascending node

11 days after descending node on 7 October 2007 at 20:03 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 22 October 2007 at 09:02 in ♓ Pisces.

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Draconic month

24 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.

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Moon after southern standstill

2 days since the previous standstill on 16 October 2007 at 23:14 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.194°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.117° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 October 2007 at 18:09 in ♊ Gemini.

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Syzygy in 6 days

In 6 days on 26 October 2007 at 04:52 in ♉ Taurus 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.

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