First
Quarter ♌ Leo
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 12 April 2019 at 19:06 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 ∠18° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1950"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1950" and ∠1914".
Pink Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2019 after 6 days on 19 April 2019 at 11:12.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 19 April 2019 at 11:12
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 26 April 2019 at 22:18
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 4 May 2019 at 22:45
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 12 May 2019 at 01:12
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 238 / 1191
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 238 of Meeus index or 1191 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.58 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 55 minutes. It is 2 hours and 39 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 11 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 52 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠228.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠228.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠263°.
Moon before apogee
11 days after point of apogee on 1 April 2019 at 00:14 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 16 April 2019 at 22:02 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 367 648 km
The Moon is 367 648 km (228 446 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 209 km (226 309 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♋ Cancer at 18:08 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 25 April 2019 at 15:02 in ♑ Capricorn.
New draconic month
At 18:08 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 11 April 2019 at 23:59 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.016°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-22.125° at the point of next southern standstill on 24 April 2019 at 21:22 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 19 April 2019 at 11:12 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.
