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Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
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 13 October 2021 at 03:25 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 ∠25° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1942"
Lunar disc appears visually 1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1942" and ∠1924".
Hunter Moon after 7 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2021 after 7 days on 20 October 2021 at 14:57.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 20 October 2021 at 14:57
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 28 October 2021 at 20:05
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 4 November 2021 at 21:15
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 11 November 2021 at 12:46
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 269 / 1222
The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 269 of Meeus index or 1222 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.42 days
Length of current 269 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 9 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2021. It is 19 minutes shorter than next lunation 270 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 35 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 34 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠323.3°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠323.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠342.3°. 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 after perigee
4 days after point of perigee on 8 October 2021 at 17:28 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 11 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 24 October 2021 at 15:30 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 369 064 km
Moon is 369 064 km (229 326 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 11 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 616 km (252 038 mi).
Moon after descending node
3 days after its descending node on 9 October 2021 at 19:35 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 9 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 23 October 2021 at 11:47 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
17 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day after previous South standstill on 12 October 2021 at 09:09 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-26.204°. Next 13 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠26.291° in the next northern standstill on 26 October 2021 at 16:04 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 7 days
After 7 days on 20 October 2021 at 14:57 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.