Waxing
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 55% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 55% and growing larger. The 8 days young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 24 September 2020 at 01:55 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 ∠7° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1905"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1905" and ∠1913".
Hunter Moon after 7 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2020 after 7 days on 1 October 2020 at 21:05.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 1 October 2020 at 21:05
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 10 October 2020 at 00:39
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 16 October 2020 at 19:31
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 23 October 2020 at 13:23
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 256 / 1209
The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 256 of Meeus index or 1209 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.35 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 31 minutes. It is 1 hour and 5 minutes shorter 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 4 hours and 13 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 56 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠341.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠341.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠357°.
Moon after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 18 September 2020 at 13:44 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 3 October 2020 at 17:22 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 376 344 km
The Moon is 376 344 km (233 849 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 321 km (252 476 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 23 September 2020 at 12:33 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 13 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 8 October 2020 at 00:29 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 19:11 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-24.458°. Over the next 15 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠24.613° at the point of next standstill in ♋ Cancer on 9 October 2020 at 13:07.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 1 October 2020 at 21:05 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.
