First
Quarter ♌ Leo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 53% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 53% and growing larger. The 8 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 14 April 2016 at 03:59 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 ♋ Cancer
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♌ Leo later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1866"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1866" and ∠1912".
Pink Moon after 7 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2016 after 7 days on 22 April 2016 at 05:24.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 22 April 2016 at 05:24
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 30 April 2016 at 03:29
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 6 May 2016 at 19:30
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 13 May 2016 at 17:02
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 201 / 1154
The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 201 of Meeus index or 1154 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.34 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 6 minutes. It is 36 minutes longer 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 38 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 31 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠355.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠355.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠10.8°.
Moon after perigee
6 days after point of perigee on 7 April 2016 at 17:36 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 21 April 2016 at 16:05 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 384 176 km
The Moon is 384 176 km (238 716 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 352 km (252 495 mi).
Moon before ascending node
8 days after descending node on 5 April 2016 at 17:27 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 18 April 2016 at 18:04 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
22 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 12 April 2016 at 12:12 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.288°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.382° at the point of next southern standstill on 27 April 2016 at 04:44 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 22 April 2016 at 05:24 in ♏ Scorpio 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.
