First
Quarter ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 45% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 45% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 30 November 2060 at 23:11 UTC.
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Moon phase and lunation details
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon is entering ♓ Pisces
Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1908"
Lunar disc appears visually 2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1908" and ∠1946".
Cold Moon after 7 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2060 after 7 days on 7 December 2060 at 14:48.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 7 December 2060 at 14:48
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 14 December 2060 at 17:15
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 22 December 2060 at 22:39
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 30 December 2060 at 09:29
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 753 / 1706
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 753 of Meeus index or 1706 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.77 days
Length of current 753 lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 24 minutes. It is 1 hour and 47 minutes longer than next lunation 754 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 40 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 23 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠199.1°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠199.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠228.7°. 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 21 November 2060 at 01:49 in ♏ Scorpio. 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 6 December 2060 at 09:57 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 375 671 km
Moon is 375 671 km (233 431 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 5 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 359 223 km (223 211 mi).
Moon before ascending node
10 days after its descending node on 20 November 2060 at 10:05 in ♎ Libra, 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 4 December 2060 at 10:07 in ♈ Aries.
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
4 days after previous South standstill on 25 November 2060 at 22:28 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.046°. Next 8 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠28.011° in the next northern standstill on 8 December 2060 at 20:39 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 7 days
After 7 days on 7 December 2060 at 14:48 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.