Waxing
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
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 ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 21 September 2061 at 19:44 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 ∠7° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1776"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1776" and ∠1912".
Harvest Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2061 after 6 days on 29 September 2061 at 09:32.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 29 September 2061 at 09:32
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 6 October 2061 at 02:57
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 13 October 2061 at 10:41
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 21 October 2061 at 14:24
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 763 / 1716
The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 763 of Meeus index or 1716 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.59 days
Length of current 763 lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 4 minutes. It is 2 hours and 54 minutes shorter than next lunation 764 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 20 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 43 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
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 ∠120.1°. 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
1 day after point of apogee on 20 September 2061 at 15:48 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 2 October 2061 at 13:00 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 403 652 km
Moon is 403 652 km (250 818 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 10 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 365 993 km (227 418 mi).
Moon after descending node
7 days after its descending node on 15 September 2061 at 08:16 in ♎ Libra, 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 29 September 2061 at 16:29 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
20 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon in southern standstill
At 01:20 on this date the Moon is meeting its South standstill point, when it will reach southern declination of ∠-28.618°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2061. Next 12 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite northward direction to face North declination of ∠28.627° in its northern standstill point on 5 October 2061 at 08:08 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 6 days
After 6 days on 29 September 2061 at 09:32 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.