First
Quarter ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 50% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 50% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♈ Aries.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 18 January 2062 at 12:51 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 ♈ Aries
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♉ Taurus later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1922"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1922" and ∠1950".
Wolf Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2062 after 6 days on 25 January 2062 at 03:37.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 25 January 2062 at 03:37
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 1 February 2062 at 07:43
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 9 February 2062 at 12:11
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 16 February 2062 at 22:38
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunation 767 / 1720
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 767 of Meeus index or 1720 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.76 days
Length of current 767 lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 18 minutes. It is 2 hours and 15 minutes longer than next lunation 768 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 34 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 29 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠201.9°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠201.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠232.2°. 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
10 days after point of apogee on 8 January 2062 at 09:05 in ♐ Sagittarius. 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 23 January 2062 at 20:23 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 372 865 km
Moon is 372 865 km (231 688 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 5 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 359 491 km (223 377 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after its ascending node on 16 January 2062 at 15:36 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 10 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 29 January 2062 at 04:17 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
1 day after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
9 days after previous South standstill on 9 January 2062 at 02:13 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.405°. Next 4 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠28.481° in the next northern standstill on 22 January 2062 at 20:38 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 6 days
After 6 days on 25 January 2062 at 03:37 in ♌ Leo, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.