First
Quarter ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 47% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 47% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 3 April 2017 at 18:39 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 passing about ∠10° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1955"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1955" and ∠1919".
Pink Moon after 7 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2017 after 7 days on 11 April 2017 at 06:08.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 11 April 2017 at 06:08
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 19 April 2017 at 09:57
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 26 April 2017 at 12:16
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 3 May 2017 at 02:47
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 213 / 1166
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 213 of Meeus index or 1166 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.39 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 19 minutes. It is 1 hour and 51 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 25 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 44 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠321.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠321.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠340.4°.
Moon after perigee
3 days after point of perigee on 30 March 2017 at 12:39 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 11 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 15 April 2017 at 10:05 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 366 585 km
The Moon is 366 585 km (227 785 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 478 km (251 952 mi).
Moon before ascending node
8 days after descending node on 25 March 2017 at 15:41 in ♒ Aquarius. 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 7 April 2017 at 09:14 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
23 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 at northern standstill
At 06:12 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠18.984°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-19.095° at the point of next standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 17 April 2017 at 13:12.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 11 April 2017 at 06:08 in ♎ Libra 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.
