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 ♏ Scorpio.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 10 August 2035 at 21:52 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 ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1803"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1803" and ∠1893".
Sturgeon Moon after 8 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2035 after 8 days on 19 August 2035 at 01:00.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 19 August 2035 at 01:00
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 26 August 2035 at 09:08
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 2 September 2035 at 01:59
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 9 September 2035 at 14:47
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 440 / 1393
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 440 of Meeus index or 1393 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.37 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 48 minutes. It is 2 hours and 19 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 56 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 13 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠25.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠25.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠46.4°.
Moon before perigee
8 days after point of perigee on 2 August 2035 at 04:06 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 14 August 2035 at 06:09 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 397 652 km
The Moon is 397 652 km (247 089 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 130 km (251 736 mi).
Moon after ascending node
5 days after ascending node on 5 August 2035 at 09:20 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 19 August 2035 at 19:18 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
5 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 1 August 2035 at 09:14 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.787°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.761° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 August 2035 at 22:59 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 days on 19 August 2035 at 01:00 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.
