Waxing
Gibbous ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 57% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 57% and growing larger. The 8 days young Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 12 November 2059 at 20:45 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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1960"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1960" and ∠1939".
Beaver Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2059 after 6 days on 19 November 2059 at 13:09.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 19 November 2059 at 13:09
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 26 November 2059 at 23:42
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 5 December 2059 at 01:49
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 12 December 2059 at 04:50
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 740 / 1693
The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 740 of Meeus index or 1693 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.69 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 38 minutes. It is 1 hour and 47 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 54 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 9 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠225.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠225.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠262.2°.
Moon before apogee
12 days after point of apogee on 1 November 2059 at 04:40 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 17 November 2059 at 04:17 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 365 728 km
The Moon is 365 728 km (227 253 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 733 km (226 013 mi).
Moon before ascending node
7 days after descending node on 5 November 2059 at 17:51 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 18 November 2059 at 20:56 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
22 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
3 days since the previous standstill on 9 November 2059 at 16:49 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.235°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.219° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 November 2059 at 10:36 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 19 November 2059 at 13:09 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
