First
Quarter ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 50% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 50% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 29 November 2052 at 12:16 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 ♓ Pisces
Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1856"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1856" and ∠1946".
Cold Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2052 after 6 days on 6 December 2052 at 07:18.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 6 December 2052 at 07:18
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 13 December 2052 at 01:07
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 21 December 2052 at 04:15
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 29 December 2052 at 02:28
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 654 / 1607
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 654 of Meeus index or 1607 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.8 days
Length of current 654 lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 13 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2052. It is 16 minutes longer than next lunation 655 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 6 hours and 29 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 34 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠165.7°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠165.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠190.2°. 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 after apogee
6 days after point of apogee on 22 November 2052 at 23:40 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 6 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 6 December 2052 at 08:52 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 386 267 km
Moon is 386 267 km (240 015 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 6 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 356 425 km (221 472 mi).
Moon before descending node
12 days after its ascending node on 16 November 2052 at 18:46 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 1 December 2052 at 09:24 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
12 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
5 days after previous South standstill on 23 November 2052 at 20:41 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-18.363°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠18.396° in the next northern standstill on 7 December 2052 at 06:12 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 6 days
After 6 days on 6 December 2052 at 07:18 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.