Waxing
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
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Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 53% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 53% and growing larger. The 8 days young Moon is in ♌ Leo.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 3 May 2036 at 05:54 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 ♌ Leo
Moon is passing about ∠17° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1970"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1903".
Flower Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2036 after 6 days on 10 May 2036 at 08:09.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 10 May 2036 at 08:09
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 18 May 2036 at 08:39
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 25 May 2036 at 19:17
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 1 June 2036 at 11:34
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 449 / 1402
The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 449 of Meeus index or 1402 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.41 days
Length of current 449 lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 44 minutes. It is 1 hour and 51 minutes longer than next lunation 450 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 9 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠292.8°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠292.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠318.9°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 1 May 2036 at 08:26 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 13 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 16 May 2036 at 12:41 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 363 919 km
Moon is 363 919 km (226 129 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 13 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 366 km (251 261 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♌ Leo at 21:32 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from South to North. Moon will follow the northern part of its orbit for the next 14 days to meet descending node on 17 May 2036 at 18:30 in ♒ Aquarius.
New draconic month
At 21:32 on this date the Moon is completing its previous draconic month and is entering the new one.
Moon after northern standstill
2 days after previous North standstill on 30 April 2036 at 19:06 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠19.658°. Next 10 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-19.758° in the next southern standstill on 14 May 2036 at 05:17 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 6 days
After 6 days on 10 May 2036 at 08:09 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.