Waxing
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 60% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 60% and growing larger. The 8 days young Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 4 August 2060 at 11:16 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 ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing about ∠25° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1778"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1778" and ∠1892".
Sturgeon Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2060 after 6 days on 12 August 2060 at 00:51.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 12 August 2060 at 00:51
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 18 August 2060 at 18:23
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 26 August 2060 at 00:56
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 3 September 2060 at 04:36
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 749 / 1702
The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 749 of Meeus index or 1702 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.5 days
Length of current 749 lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 7 minutes. It is 2 hours and 50 minutes shorter than next lunation 750 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 37 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 32 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠84.5°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠84.5°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠119.2°. 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 after apogee
2 days after point of apogee on 3 August 2060 at 08:10 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 9 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 15 August 2060 at 06:57 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 403 036 km
Moon is 403 036 km (250 435 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 9 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 366 169 km (227 527 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after its descending node on 3 August 2060 at 14:41 in ♎ Libra, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 11 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 16 August 2060 at 23:52 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
15 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days after previous North standstill on 25 July 2060 at 08:10 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠27.680°. Next 3 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-27.761° in the next southern standstill on 8 August 2060 at 17:40 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 6 days
After 6 days on 12 August 2060 at 00:51 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.