Waxing
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 63% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 63% and growing larger. The 8 days young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 4 October 2049 at 09:39 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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1971"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1919".
Hunter Moon after 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2049 after 5 days on 11 October 2049 at 02:53.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 11 October 2049 at 02:53
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 18 October 2049 at 17:55
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 26 October 2049 at 16:15
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 2 November 2049 at 16:19
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 615 / 1568
The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 615 of Meeus index or 1568 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.59 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 10 minutes. It is 49 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 26 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 37 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠241.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠241.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠278.3°.
Moon before apogee
13 days after point of apogee on 22 September 2049 at 00:05 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 7 October 2049 at 21:10 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 363 590 km
The Moon is 363 590 km (225 924 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 276 km (227 593 mi).
Moon after ascending node
4 days after ascending node on 1 October 2049 at 11:18 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 14 October 2049 at 06:20 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
4 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 2 October 2049 at 17:46 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.422°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.344° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 October 2049 at 15:55 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 5 days
In 5 days on 11 October 2049 at 02:53 in ♈ Aries 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.
