First
Quarter ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 50% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 50% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♎ Libra.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 5 July 2014 at 11:59 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 ∠13° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1818"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1818" and ∠1887".
Buck Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2014 after 6 days on 12 July 2014 at 11:25.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 12 July 2014 at 11:25
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 19 July 2014 at 02:08
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 26 July 2014 at 22:42
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 4 August 2014 at 00:50
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 179 / 1132
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 179 of Meeus index or 1132 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.61 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 33 minutes. It is 58 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 1 hour and 49 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 14 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠144.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠144.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠169.2°.
Moon after apogee
4 days after point of apogee on 30 June 2014 at 19:09 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 13 July 2014 at 08:27 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 394 184 km
The Moon is 394 184 km (244 935 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 259 km (222 612 mi).
Moon before ascending node
13 days after descending node on 21 June 2014 at 20:30 in ♈ Aries. 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 6 July 2014 at 09:50 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
26 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 26 June 2014 at 08:34 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.035°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.982° at the point of next southern standstill on 10 July 2014 at 17:29 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 12 July 2014 at 11:25 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.
