Waxing
Gibbous ♓ Pisces
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 ♓ Pisces.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 17 November 2007 at 22:32 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 ♓ Pisces
Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1904"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1904" and ∠1941".
Beaver Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2007 after 6 days on 24 November 2007 at 14:30.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 24 November 2007 at 14:30
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 1 December 2007 at 12:44
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 9 December 2007 at 17:40
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 17 December 2007 at 10:17
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 97 / 1050
The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 97 of Meeus index or 1050 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.78 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 37 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2007. It is 40 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°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 53 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 10 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠183.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠183.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠209.6°.
Moon before apogee
8 days after point of apogee on 9 November 2007 at 12:31 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 24 November 2007 at 00:12 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 376 366 km
The Moon is 376 366 km (233 863 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 196 km (221 951 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♓ Pisces at 12:46 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 12 days later on 30 November 2007 at 23:09 in ♌ Leo.
New draconic month
At 12:46 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
5 days since the previous standstill on 13 November 2007 at 04:37 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.006°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.958° at the point of next northern standstill on 26 November 2007 at 03:58 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 24 November 2007 at 14:30 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.
