First
Quarter ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 47% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 47% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 15 August 2040 at 18:36 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 ∠20° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1912"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1912" and ∠1895".
Sturgeon Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2040 after 6 days on 22 August 2040 at 09:09.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 22 August 2040 at 09:09
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 29 August 2040 at 11:16
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 6 September 2040 at 15:13
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 14 September 2040 at 02:07
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 502 / 1455
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 502 of Meeus index or 1455 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.62 days
Length of current 502 lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 47 minutes. It is 35 minutes longer than next lunation 503 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 3 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠199°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠199°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠226.5°. 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 before perigee
9 days after point of apogee on 5 August 2040 at 23:43 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 21 August 2040 at 03:58 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 374 877 km
Moon is 374 877 km (232 938 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 5 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 359 359 km (223 295 mi).
Moon before descending node
13 days after its ascending node on 1 August 2040 at 17:44 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 16 August 2040 at 05:30 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
13 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is moving from the first to the middle part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
10 days after previous North standstill on 4 August 2040 at 21:26 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠26.211°. Next 3 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-26.313° in the next southern standstill on 18 August 2040 at 23:35 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 6 days
After 6 days on 22 August 2040 at 09:09 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.