Waxing
Gibbous ♌ Leo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 62% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 62% and growing larger. The 8 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 1 April 2020 at 10:21 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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♌ Leo later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1904"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1904" and ∠1919".
Pink Moon after 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2020 after 5 days on 8 April 2020 at 02:35.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 8 April 2020 at 02:35
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 14 April 2020 at 22:56
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 23 April 2020 at 02:26
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 30 April 2020 at 20:38
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 250 / 1203
The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 250 of Meeus index or 1203 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.71 days
Length of current 250 lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 58 minutes. It is 1 hour and 45 minutes longer than next lunation 251 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 14 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 49 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠177.9°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠177.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠201.8°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before perigee
8 days after point of apogee on 24 March 2020 at 15:23 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 7 April 2020 at 18:08 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 376 439 km
Moon is 376 439 km (233 908 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 5 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 356 909 km (221 773 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after its ascending node on 31 March 2020 at 16:51 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 10 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 13 April 2020 at 02:58 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
1 day after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day after previous North standstill on 1 April 2020 at 09:12 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠23.702°. Next 11 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-23.805° in the next southern standstill on 13 April 2020 at 21:03 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 5 days
After 5 days on 8 April 2020 at 02:35 in ♎ Libra, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.