Waxing
Gibbous ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 53% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 53% and growing larger. The 8 days young Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 12 December 2059 at 04:50 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 ∠24° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1972"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1949".
Cold Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2059 after 6 days on 19 December 2059 at 02:11.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 19 December 2059 at 02:11
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 26 December 2059 at 21:17
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 3 January 2060 at 16:40
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 10 January 2060 at 12:52
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 741 / 1694
The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 741 of Meeus index or 1694 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.62 days
Length of current 741 lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 51 minutes. It is 2 hours and 9 minutes longer than next lunation 742 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 7 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 56 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠262.2°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠262.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠297.9°. 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
13 days after point of apogee on 28 November 2059 at 22:30 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next perigee on 14 December 2059 at 10:07 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 363 481 km
Moon is 363 481 km (225 857 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next day until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 369 175 km (229 395 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days after its descending node on 3 December 2059 at 01:20 in ♏ Scorpio, 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 16 December 2059 at 05:03 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
23 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
5 days after previous South standstill on 6 December 2059 at 22:40 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-27.188°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠27.159° in the next northern standstill on 19 December 2059 at 20:09 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 6 days
After 6 days on 19 December 2059 at 02:11 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.