Waxing
Gibbous ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 60% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 60% and growing larger. The 8 days young Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 11 November 2051 at 13:07 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 is entering ♓ Pisces
Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1920"
Lunar disc appears visually 1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1920" and ∠1939".
Beaver Moon after 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2051 after 5 days on 18 November 2051 at 05:06.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 18 November 2051 at 05:06
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 25 November 2051 at 04:02
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 3 December 2051 at 09:37
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 11 December 2051 at 00:07
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 641 / 1594
The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 641 of Meeus index or 1594 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.78 days
Length of current 641 lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 38 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2051. It is 1 hour and 9 minutes longer than next lunation 642 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 54 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 9 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠187.8°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠187.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠214.3°. 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 before perigee
9 days after point of apogee on 2 November 2051 at 17:22 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 4 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 17 November 2051 at 10:55 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 373 283 km
Moon is 373 283 km (231 947 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 4 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 357 776 km (222 312 mi).
Moon before descending node
10 days after its ascending node on 2 November 2051 at 03:14 in ♎ Libra, 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 16 November 2051 at 01:34 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
10 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
5 days after previous South standstill on 7 November 2051 at 04:46 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-18.703°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠18.736° in the next northern standstill on 20 November 2051 at 02:16 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 5 days
After 5 days on 18 November 2051 at 05:06 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.