First
Quarter ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 46% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 46% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♎ Libra.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 25 July 2023 at 22:07 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 ♎ Libra
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♏ Scorpio later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1827"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1827" and ∠1889".
Sturgeon Moon after 7 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2023 after 7 days on 1 August 2023 at 18:31.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 1 August 2023 at 18:31
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 8 August 2023 at 10:28
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 16 August 2023 at 09:38
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 24 August 2023 at 09:57
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 291 / 1244
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 291 of Meeus index or 1244 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.63 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 6 minutes. It is 56 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 2 hours and 22 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 41 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠155.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠155.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠179.2°.
Moon after apogee
5 days after point of apogee on 20 July 2023 at 06:56 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 2 August 2023 at 05:52 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 392 227 km
The Moon is 392 227 km (243 719 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 311 km (222 023 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♎ Libra at 15:05 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 12 days later on 7 August 2023 at 02:46 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
14 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 16 July 2023 at 02:40 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.849°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.924° at the point of next southern standstill on 30 July 2023 at 11:13 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 1 August 2023 at 18:31 in ♒ Aquarius 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.
