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 ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 10 April 2049 at 07:27 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 ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1915".
Pink Moon after 7 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2049 after 7 days on 18 April 2049 at 01:04.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 18 April 2049 at 01:04
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 24 April 2049 at 21:11
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 2 May 2049 at 00:11
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 10 May 2049 at 01:57
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 609 / 1562
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 609 of Meeus index or 1562 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.52 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 32 minutes. It is 1 hour and 17 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 12 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 57 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠67°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠67°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠102.4°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 03:32. It is 12 days after previous perigee on 28 March 2049 at 13:03 in ♑ Capricorn. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 11 days, until point of next perigee on 22 April 2049 at 11:15 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 404 203 km
This apogee Moon is 404 203 km (251 160 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest apogee of 2049. It is 1 205 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 152 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
3 days after descending node on 6 April 2049 at 22:31 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 20 April 2049 at 23:57 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
16 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 7 April 2049 at 13:42 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.212°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-22.138° at the point of next southern standstill on 21 April 2049 at 13:59 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 18 April 2049 at 01:04 in ♎ Libra 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.
