First
Quarter ♌ Leo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 45% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 45% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 17 April 2051 at 22:38 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 ∠22° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1850"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1850" and ∠1911".
Pink Moon after 8 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2051 after 8 days on 26 April 2051 at 02:19.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 26 April 2051 at 02:19
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 3 May 2051 at 19:30
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 10 May 2051 at 10:29
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 17 May 2051 at 13:29
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 634 / 1587
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 634 of Meeus index or 1587 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.35 days
Length of current 634 lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 30 minutes. It is 3 minutes longer than next lunation 635 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 14 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 55 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠6.6°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠6.6°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠23.1°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before apogee
6 days after point of perigee on 10 April 2051 at 16:35 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 6 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 23 April 2051 at 15:59 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 387 432 km
Moon is 387 432 km (240 739 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 6 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 100 km (252 339 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after its descending node on 11 April 2051 at 19:58 in ♈ Aries, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 8 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 25 April 2051 at 19:39 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
18 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
2 days after previous North standstill on 15 April 2051 at 05:12 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠19.160°. Next 12 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-19.162° in the next southern standstill on 29 April 2051 at 20:50 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 8 days
After 8 days on 26 April 2051 at 02:19 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.