Waxing
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 57% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 57% and growing larger. The 8 days young Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 25 May 2015 at 17:19 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 ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1894".
Strawberry Moon after 7 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2015 after 7 days on 2 June 2015 at 16:19.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 2 June 2015 at 16:19
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 9 June 2015 at 15:42
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 16 June 2015 at 14:05
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 24 June 2015 at 11:03
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 190 / 1143
The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 190 of Meeus index or 1143 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.41 days
Length of current 190 lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 52 minutes. It is 1 hour and 27 minutes shorter than next lunation 191 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 52 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 17 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠48.8°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠48.8°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠78.1°. 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 in apogee
Moon is reaching point of apogee on this date at 22:12, this is 11 days after last perigee on 15 May 2015 at 00:23 in ♈ Aries. Lunar orbit is starting to get closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth for 14 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next perigee on 10 June 2015 at 04:39 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 404 246 km
This apogee Moon is 404 246 km (251 187 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 162 km farther than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 463 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
11 days after its descending node on 14 May 2015 at 20:37 in ♈ Aries, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 2 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 28 May 2015 at 14:40 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
25 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
6 days after previous North standstill on 20 May 2015 at 09:41 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠18.389°. Next 8 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-18.440° in the next southern standstill on 3 June 2015 at 21:10 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 7 days
After 7 days on 2 June 2015 at 16:19 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.