Waxing
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 62% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 62% and growing larger. The 8 days young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 26 September 2047 at 09:29 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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1917"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1917" and ∠1915".
Hunter Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2047 after 6 days on 3 October 2047 at 23:42.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 3 October 2047 at 23:42
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 12 October 2047 at 04:22
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 19 October 2047 at 03:28
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 25 October 2047 at 19:13
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 590 / 1543
The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 590 of Meeus index or 1543 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.37 days
Length of current 590 lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 57 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2047. It is 34 minutes shorter than next lunation 591 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 48 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 22 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠329.2°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠329.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠346.8°. 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 after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 21 September 2047 at 15:28 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 9 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 7 October 2047 at 08:53 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 373 880 km
Moon is 373 880 km (232 318 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 9 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 929 km (252 233 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♑ Capricorn at 01:32 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from South to North. Moon will follow the northern part of its orbit for the next 14 days to meet descending node on 11 October 2047 at 12:21 in ♋ Cancer.
New draconic month
At 01:32 on this date the Moon is completing its previous draconic month and is entering the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days after previous South standstill on 25 September 2047 at 10:00 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-24.945°. Next 12 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠24.802° in the next northern standstill on 9 October 2047 at 18:12 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 6 days
After 6 days on 3 October 2047 at 23:42 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.