First
Quarter ♌ Leo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 52% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 52% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♌ Leo.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 24 April 2045 at 07:12 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 ♌ Leo
Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1907".
Flower Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2045 after 6 days on 1 May 2045 at 05:52.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 1 May 2045 at 05:52
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 9 May 2045 at 02:51
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 16 May 2045 at 18:26
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 23 May 2045 at 12:38
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 560 / 1513
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 560 of Meeus index or 1513 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.46 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 1 minute. It is 2 hours and 22 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 44 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 25 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠274.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠274.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠305.3°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 22:26. It is 14 days after previous apogee on 10 April 2045 at 13:48 in ♑ Capricorn. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 13 days, until point of next apogee on 8 May 2045 at 09:24 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 369 865 km
This perigee Moon is 369 865 km (229 823 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest perigee of 2045. It is 7 357 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 491 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
11 days after ascending node on 12 April 2045 at 18:23 in ♒ Aquarius. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 26 April 2045 at 01:40 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
11 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 21 April 2045 at 12:18 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.903°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.817° at the point of next southern standstill on 4 May 2045 at 15:12 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 1 May 2045 at 05:52 in ♏ Scorpio 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.
