First
Quarter ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 52% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 52% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 12 June 2016 at 08:10 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 ∠24° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1790"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1790" and ∠1889".
Strawberry Moon after 7 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2016 after 7 days on 20 June 2016 at 11:02.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 20 June 2016 at 11:02
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 27 June 2016 at 18:19
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 4 July 2016 at 11:01
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 12 July 2016 at 00:52
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 203 / 1156
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 203 of Meeus index or 1156 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.33 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 1 minute. It is 1 hour and 43 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 43 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 26 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠27.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠27.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠48.9°.
Moon before perigee
9 days after point of perigee on 3 June 2016 at 10:55 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 15 June 2016 at 12:00 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 400 382 km
The Moon is 400 382 km (248 786 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 022 km (251 669 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 11 June 2016 at 22:20 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 13 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 26 June 2016 at 05:28 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 6 June 2016 at 09:13 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.575°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.610° at the point of next southern standstill on 20 June 2016 at 18:52 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 20 June 2016 at 11:02 in ♐ Sagittarius 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.
