First
Quarter ♋ Cancer
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 ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 1 April 2039 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 ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1787"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1787" and ∠1920".
Pink Moon after 7 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2039 after 7 days on 9 April 2039 at 02:53.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 9 April 2039 at 02:53
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 15 April 2039 at 18:07
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 23 April 2039 at 09:35
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 1 May 2039 at 14:07
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 485 / 1438
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 485 of Meeus index or 1438 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.65 days
Length of current 485 lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 35 minutes. It is 28 minutes shorter than next lunation 486 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 51 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 12 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠120.7°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠120.7°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠151.8°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon after apogee
2 days after point of apogee on 29 March 2039 at 17:29 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 9 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 10 April 2039 at 17:31 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 401 014 km
Moon is 401 014 km (249 179 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 9 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 360 831 km (224 210 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after its ascending node on 31 March 2039 at 11:40 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 11 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 13 April 2039 at 11:46 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
1 day after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon in northern standstill
At 20:16 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠24.377°. Next 13 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-24.485° in its southern standstill point on 14 April 2039 at 17:09 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 7 days
After 7 days on 9 April 2039 at 02:53 in ♎ Libra, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.