Waxing
Gibbous ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 54% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 54% and growing larger. The 8 days young Moon is in ♎ Libra.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 27 June 2012 at 03:30 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 ♎ Libra
Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1948"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1948" and ∠1887".
Buck Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2012 after 6 days on 3 July 2012 at 18:52.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 3 July 2012 at 18:52
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 11 July 2012 at 01:48
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 19 July 2012 at 04:24
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 26 July 2012 at 08:56
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 154 / 1107
The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 154 of Meeus index or 1107 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.56 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 22 minutes. It is 1 hour and 52 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 38 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 25 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠217.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠217.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠248.7°.
Moon before apogee
11 days after point of apogee on 16 June 2012 at 01:24 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 1 July 2012 at 18:01 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 367 879 km
The Moon is 367 879 km (228 589 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 363 km (225 162 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days after descending node on 17 June 2012 at 15:43 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 1 July 2012 at 05:45 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
23 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 18 June 2012 at 17:37 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.721°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-21.701° at the point of next southern standstill on 2 July 2012 at 03:33 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 3 July 2012 at 18:52 in ♑ Capricorn 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.
