First
Quarter ♊ Gemini
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 ♉ Taurus.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 2 February 2020 at 01:42 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 ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1800"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1800" and ∠1947".
Snow Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2020 after 6 days on 9 February 2020 at 07:33.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 9 February 2020 at 07:33
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 15 February 2020 at 22:17
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 23 February 2020 at 15:32
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 2 March 2020 at 19:57
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunation 248 / 1201
The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 248 of Meeus index or 1201 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.74 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 50 minutes. It is 6 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 5 hours and 6 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 57 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠120.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠120.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠152.6°.
Moon after apogee
3 days after point of apogee on 29 January 2020 at 21:28 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 February 2020 at 20:31 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 398 174 km
The Moon is 398 174 km (247 414 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 464 km (223 982 mi).
Moon before ascending node
10 days after descending node on 22 January 2020 at 20:31 in ♑ Capricorn. 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 6 February 2020 at 08:59 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
23 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
10 days since the previous standstill on 23 January 2020 at 03:37 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.225°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.268° at the point of next northern standstill on 6 February 2020 at 16:10 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 9 February 2020 at 07:33 in ♌ Leo 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.
