First
Quarter ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 49% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 49% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 6 April 2033 at 15:14 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 ∠15° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1838"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1838" and ∠1917".
Pink Moon after 8 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2033 after 8 days on 14 April 2033 at 19:17.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 14 April 2033 at 19:17
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 22 April 2033 at 11:42
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 29 April 2033 at 02:46
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 6 May 2033 at 06:45
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 411 / 1364
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 411 of Meeus index or 1364 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.37 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 55 minutes. It is 5 minutes longer 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 49 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 20 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠8.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠8.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠25.1°.
Moon before perigee
7 days after point of perigee on 30 March 2033 at 06:09 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 12 April 2033 at 02:26 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 389 951 km
The Moon is 389 951 km (242 304 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 060 km (252 314 mi).
Moon after descending node
6 days after descending node on 31 March 2033 at 11:09 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 14 April 2033 at 11:28 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
19 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 4 April 2033 at 20:56 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.590°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.596° at the point of next southern standstill on 19 April 2033 at 14:20 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 days on 14 April 2033 at 19:17 in ♎ Libra 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.
