Waxing
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 62% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 62% and growing larger. The 8 days young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 26 September 2009 at 04:50 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 passing about ∠19° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1769"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1915".
Hunter Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2009 after 6 days on 4 October 2009 at 06:10.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 4 October 2009 at 06:10
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 11 October 2009 at 08:56
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 18 October 2009 at 05:33
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 26 October 2009 at 00:42
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 120 / 1073
The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 120 of Meeus index or 1073 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.45 days
Length of current 120 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 49 minutes. It is 2 hours and 52 minutes shorter than next lunation 121 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 55 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 14 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠39.3°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠39.3°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠65.2°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before apogee
11 days after point of perigee on 16 September 2009 at 07:55 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next apogee on 28 September 2009 at 03:33 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 405 127 km
Moon is 405 127 km (251 734 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next day until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 432 km (251 302 mi).
Moon before ascending node
12 days after its descending node on 14 September 2009 at 20:56 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 28 September 2009 at 06:52 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
26 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days after previous South standstill on 25 September 2009 at 04:03 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-26.188°. Next 11 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠26.057° in the next northern standstill on 9 October 2009 at 09:49 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 6 days
After 6 days on 4 October 2009 at 06:10 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.