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
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 4 minutes. It is 2 hours and 54 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 20 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 43 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠84.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠84.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠120.1°.
Moon after apogee
1 day after point of apogee on 20 September 2061 at 15:48 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 2 October 2061 at 13:00 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 403 652 km
The Moon is 403 652 km (250 818 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 993 km (227 418 mi).
Moon after descending node
7 days after descending node on 15 September 2061 at 08:16 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 29 September 2061 at 16:29 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
20 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 01:20 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.618°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2061. Over the next 12 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.627° at the point of next standstill in ♋ Cancer on 5 October 2061 at 08:08.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 29 September 2061 at 09:32 in ♈ Aries 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.
