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Moon phase on 1 December 2041 Sunday is First Quarter, 8 days young Moon is in Pisces.

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Lunar calendar 2041 | December 2041

First Quarter phase
First Quarter phase
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.

First Quarter 58% illuminated

First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 58% and growing larger. The 8 days young Moon is in ♓ Pisces.

* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 30 November 2041 at 19:49 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 ♓ Pisces

Moon is passing about ∠19° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1973"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1946".

Cold Moon after 6 days

Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2041 after 6 days on 7 December 2041 at 17:42.

Upcoming main Moon phases

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 518 / 1471

The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 518 of Meeus index or 1471 from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.6 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 30 minutes. It is 1 hour and 54 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Lunation length longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 46 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 17 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit position on

True anomaly ∠265.9°

At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠265.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠300.9°.

Moon before apogee

14 days after point of apogee on 17 November 2041 at 10:08 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 2 December 2041 at 16:20 in ♓ Pisces.

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Distance to Moon 363 297 km

The Moon is 363 297 km (225 742 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 538 km (229 620 mi).

Moon before ascending node

9 days after descending node on 21 November 2041 at 17:04 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 4 December 2041 at 20:02 in ♈ Aries.

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Draconic month

23 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.

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Moon after southern standstill

5 days since the previous standstill on 26 November 2041 at 07:01 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.785°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.747° at the point of next northern standstill on 9 December 2041 at 04:59 in ♋ Cancer.

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Syzygy in 6 days

In 6 days on 7 December 2041 at 17:42 in ♊ Gemini 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.

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