First
Quarter ♒ Aquarius
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 ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 14 October 2059 at 11:38 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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing about ∠21° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1915"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1915" and ∠1924".
Hunter Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2059 after 6 days on 21 October 2059 at 02:15.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 21 October 2059 at 02:15
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 28 October 2059 at 04:31
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 5 November 2059 at 09:11
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 12 November 2059 at 20:45
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 739 / 1692
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 739 of Meeus index or 1692 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.72 days
Length of current 739 lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 22 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2059. It is 44 minutes longer than next lunation 740 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 38 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 25 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠197.3°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠197.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠225.8°. 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 4 October 2059 at 18:25 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 19 October 2059 at 23:09 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 374 201 km
Moon is 374 201 km (232 518 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 5 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 359 009 km (223 078 mi).
Moon after descending node
4 days after its descending node on 9 October 2059 at 12:05 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 7 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 22 October 2059 at 10:13 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
19 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day after previous South standstill on 13 October 2059 at 11:22 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-27.180°. Next 11 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠27.221° in the next northern standstill on 26 October 2059 at 00:58 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 6 days
After 6 days on 21 October 2059 at 02:15 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.