First
Quarter ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 54% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 54% and growing larger. The 8 days young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 28 September 2017 at 02:54 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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing about ∠10° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1771"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1771" and ∠1915".
Hunter Moon after 7 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2017 after 7 days on 5 October 2017 at 18:40.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 5 October 2017 at 18:40
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 12 October 2017 at 12:25
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 19 October 2017 at 19:12
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 27 October 2017 at 22:22
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 219 / 1172
The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 219 of Meeus index or 1172 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.57 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 42 minutes. It is 2 hours and 48 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 58 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 5 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠79°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠79°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠114.6°.
Moon after apogee
1 day after point of apogee on 27 September 2017 at 06:49 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 9 October 2017 at 05:51 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 404 728 km
The Moon is 404 728 km (251 486 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 858 km (227 955 mi).
Moon before descending node
10 days after ascending node on 17 September 2017 at 18:28 in ♌ Leo. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 2 October 2017 at 02:05 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
10 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 10:06 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-19.516°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠19.616° at the point of next standstill in ♋ Cancer on 11 October 2017 at 18:21.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 5 October 2017 at 18:40 in ♈ Aries 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.
