First
Quarter ♉ Taurus
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 ♉ Taurus.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 31 January 2058 at 10:28 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 ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1826"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1826" and ∠1947".
Snow Moon after 8 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2058 after 8 days on 8 February 2058 at 15:54.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 8 February 2058 at 15:54
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 16 February 2058 at 07:16
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 22 February 2058 at 22:56
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 2 March 2058 at 05:10
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunation 718 / 1671
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 718 of Meeus index or 1671 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.45 days
Length of current 718 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 42 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2058. It is 11 minutes shorter than next lunation 719 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 2 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 7 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠10.9°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠10.9°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠28.2°. 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 23 January 2058 at 21:00 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 5 February 2058 at 12:03 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 392 528 km
Moon is 392 528 km (243 906 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 5 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 978 km (252 263 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days after its descending node on 21 January 2058 at 19:04 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 3 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 3 February 2058 at 20:37 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
23 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
8 days after previous South standstill on 22 January 2058 at 23:21 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-24.534°. Next 4 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠24.565° in the next northern standstill on 5 February 2058 at 09:27 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 8 days
After 8 days on 8 February 2058 at 15:54 in ♌ Leo, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.