First
Quarter ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 54% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 54% and growing larger. The 8 days young Moon is in ♌ Leo.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 10 May 2049 at 01:57 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 ∠25° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1784"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1784" and ∠1900".
Flower Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2049 after 6 days on 17 May 2049 at 11:13.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 17 May 2049 at 11:13
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 24 May 2049 at 02:54
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 31 May 2049 at 14:00
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 8 June 2049 at 17:56
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 610 / 1563
The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 610 of Meeus index or 1563 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.58 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 49 minutes. It is 1 hour and 1 minute 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 5 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 58 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠102.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠102.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠136.3°.
Moon after apogee
2 days after point of apogee on 7 May 2049 at 22:34 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 May 2049 at 19:18 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 401 752 km
The Moon is 401 752 km (249 637 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 447 km (225 835 mi).
Moon after descending node
6 days after descending node on 4 May 2049 at 04:33 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 18 May 2049 at 07:42 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
19 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
5 days since the previous standstill on 4 May 2049 at 21:27 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.094°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-22.086° at the point of next southern standstill on 18 May 2049 at 21:47 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 17 May 2049 at 11:13 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.
