First
Quarter ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 51% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 51% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 5 October 2038 at 09:52 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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1917"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1917" and ∠1919".
Hunter Moon after 7 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2038 after 7 days on 13 October 2038 at 04:22.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 13 October 2038 at 04:22
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 21 October 2038 at 08:23
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 28 October 2038 at 03:53
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 3 November 2038 at 21:24
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 479 / 1432
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 479 of Meeus index or 1432 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.37 days
Length of current 479 lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 55 minutes. It is 59 minutes shorter than next lunation 480 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 49 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 20 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠339.4°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠339.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠355.4°. 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
5 days after point of perigee on 30 September 2038 at 00:20 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 9 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 15 October 2038 at 07:13 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 373 958 km
Moon is 373 958 km (232 367 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 9 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 282 km (252 452 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after its descending node on 4 October 2038 at 21:28 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 13 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 19 October 2038 at 08:51 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
13 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is moving from the middle to the last part of it.
Moon in southern standstill
At 08:40 on this date the Moon is meeting its South standstill point, when it will reach southern declination of ∠-23.486°. Next 14 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite northward direction to face North declination of ∠23.638° in its northern standstill point on 20 October 2038 at 00:51 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 7 days
After 7 days on 13 October 2038 at 04:22 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.