First
Quarter ♌ Leo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 47% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 47% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 15 April 2024 at 19:13 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 passing about ∠23° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1818"
Lunar disc appears visually 5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1818" and ∠1912".
Pink Moon after 8 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2024 after 8 days on 23 April 2024 at 23:49.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 23 April 2024 at 23:49
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 1 May 2024 at 11:27
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 8 May 2024 at 03:22
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 15 May 2024 at 11:48
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 300 / 1253
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 300 of Meeus index or 1253 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.38 days
Length of current 300 lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 1 minute. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2024. It is 15 minutes shorter than next lunation 301 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 43 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 26 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠17.2°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠17.2°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠36°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before apogee
7 days after point of perigee on 7 April 2024 at 17:53 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 4 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 20 April 2024 at 02:09 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 394 254 km
Moon is 394 254 km (244 978 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 4 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 625 km (252 044 mi).
Moon before descending node
6 days after its ascending node on 8 April 2024 at 12:20 in ♈ Aries, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 6 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 22 April 2024 at 10:45 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
6 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day after previous North standstill on 13 April 2024 at 22:36 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.552°. Next 13 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.509° in the next southern standstill on 28 April 2024 at 14:28 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 8 days
After 8 days on 23 April 2024 at 23:49 in ♎ Libra, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.