First
Quarter ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 45% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 45% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 4 September 2030 at 21:55 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 ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1903".
Harvest Moon after 7 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2030 after 7 days on 11 September 2030 at 21:18.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 11 September 2030 at 21:18
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 19 September 2030 at 19:56
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 27 September 2030 at 09:55
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 4 October 2030 at 03:56
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 379 / 1332
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 379 of Meeus index or 1332 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.45 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 47 minutes. It is 25 minutes longer 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 1 hour and 57 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 12 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠279.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠279.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠310.2°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 17:06. It is 13 days after previous apogee on 21 August 2030 at 22:49 in ♊ Gemini. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 14 days, until point of next apogee on 18 September 2030 at 18:09 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 369 884 km
This perigee Moon is 369 884 km (229 835 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest perigee of 2030. It is 7 376 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 472 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 20:52 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 18 September 2030 at 10:12 in ♊ Gemini.
New draconic month
At 20:52 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before southern standstill
12 days since the previous standstill on 22 August 2030 at 18:22 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.465°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-22.341° at the point of next southern standstill on 5 September 2030 at 08:00 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 11 September 2030 at 21:18 in ♓ Pisces 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.
