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Quarter* ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 42% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 42% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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Moon phase and lunation details
6 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 6 days on 14 December 2050 at 05:18.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♓ Pisces
Moon is passing about ∠20° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1972"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1950".
Cold Moon after 7 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2050 after 7 days on 28 December 2050 at 05:15.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 21 December 2050 at 04:15
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 28 December 2050 at 05:15
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 5 January 2051 at 04:29
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 12 January 2051 at 18:58
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 630 / 1583
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 630 of Meeus index or 1583 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.57 days
Length of current 630 lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 40 minutes. It is 1 hour and 57 minutes longer than next lunation 631 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 56 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 6 hours and 7 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠282.8°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠282.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠313.4°. 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 in perigee
Moon is reaching point of perigee on this date at 16:49, this is 13 days after last apogee on 7 December 2050 at 02:39 in ♍ Virgo. Lunar orbit is starting to get wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth for 14 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next apogee on 4 January 2051 at 00:04 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 370 280 km
This perigee Moon is 370 280 km (230 081 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest perigee of 2050. It is 7 772 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 76 km farther than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
9 days after its ascending node on 11 December 2050 at 00:42 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 3 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 24 December 2050 at 02:37 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
9 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
6 days after previous South standstill on 14 December 2050 at 02:00 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-19.822°. Next 6 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠19.815° in the next northern standstill on 27 December 2050 at 00:57 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 7 days
After 7 days on 28 December 2050 at 05:15 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.