First
Quarter ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 50% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 50% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 11 September 2043 at 13:01 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 ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1772"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1772" and ∠1906".
Harvest Moon after 7 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2043 after 7 days on 19 September 2043 at 01:47.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 19 September 2043 at 01:47
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 25 September 2043 at 18:40
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 3 October 2043 at 03:12
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 11 October 2043 at 07:05
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 540 / 1493
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 540 of Meeus index or 1493 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.58 days
Length of current 540 lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 55 minutes. It is 2 hours and 50 minutes shorter than next lunation 541 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 11 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 52 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠88.7°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠88.7°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠123.9°. 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
1 day after point of apogee on 10 September 2043 at 03:40 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 22 September 2043 at 00:24 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 404 446 km
Moon is 404 446 km (251 311 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 10 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 365 389 km (227 042 mi).
Moon after descending node
6 days after its descending node on 4 September 2043 at 23:58 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 7 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 19 September 2043 at 07:48 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
19 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
13 days after previous North standstill on 29 August 2043 at 09:18 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.661°. Next day the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.703° in the next southern standstill on 12 September 2043 at 11:52 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 7 days
After 7 days on 19 September 2043 at 01:47 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.