Waxing
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 61% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 61% and growing larger. The 8 days young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 7 October 2008 at 09:04 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 ∠2° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1790"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1790" and ∠1921".
Hunter Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2008 after 6 days on 14 October 2008 at 20:03.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 14 October 2008 at 20:03
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 21 October 2008 at 11:55
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 28 October 2008 at 23:14
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 6 November 2008 at 04:04
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 108 / 1061
The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 108 of Meeus index or 1061 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.63 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 2 minutes. It is 2 hours and 39 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 18 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 45 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠98.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠98.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠133.4°.
Moon after apogee
3 days after point of apogee on 5 October 2008 at 10:34 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 17 October 2008 at 06:06 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 400 511 km
The Moon is 400 511 km (248 866 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 828 km (226 072 mi).
Moon before ascending node
12 days after descending node on 25 September 2008 at 16:20 in ♌ Leo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 10 October 2008 at 00:38 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
25 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 5 October 2008 at 14:05 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.370°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.270° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 October 2008 at 00:21 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 14 October 2008 at 20:03 in ♈ Aries 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.
