Waxing
Gibbous ♓ Pisces
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 ♓ Pisces.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 14 November 2056 at 05:33 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 ∠9° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1849"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1849" and ∠1940".
Beaver Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2056 after 6 days on 22 November 2056 at 06:12.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 22 November 2056 at 06:12
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 30 November 2056 at 06:37
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 6 December 2056 at 22:31
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 13 December 2056 at 20:54
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 703 / 1656
The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 703 of Meeus index or 1656 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.42 days
Length of current 703 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 10 minutes. It is 1 hour and 8 minutes shorter than next lunation 704 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 34 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 35 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠353.9°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠353.9°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠9.2°. 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
7 days after point of perigee on 7 November 2056 at 20:56 in ♏ Scorpio. 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 21 November 2056 at 23:18 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 387 654 km
Moon is 387 654 km (240 877 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 6 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 436 km (252 548 mi).
Moon after descending node
4 days after its descending node on 11 November 2056 at 09:30 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 10 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 25 November 2056 at 19:20 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
16 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
4 days after previous South standstill on 11 November 2056 at 06:14 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-22.728°. Next 10 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠22.815° in the next northern standstill on 25 November 2056 at 17:50 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 6 days
After 6 days on 22 November 2056 at 06:12 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.