First
Quarter ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 47% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 47% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♌ Leo.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 15 May 2062 at 18:17 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 ♌ Leo
Moon is passing about ∠22° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1949"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1949" and ∠1898".
Flower Moon after 7 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2062 after 7 days on 23 May 2062 at 07:03.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 23 May 2062 at 07:03
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 31 May 2062 at 10:44
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 7 June 2062 at 11:12
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 14 June 2062 at 01:53
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 771 / 1724
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 771 of Meeus index or 1724 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.33 days
Length of current 771 lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 49 minutes. It is 1 hour and 8 minutes longer than next lunation 772 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 55 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 14 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠325.7°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠325.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠343.6°. 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 after perigee
4 days after point of perigee on 11 May 2062 at 06:10 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 11 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 27 May 2062 at 00:01 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 367 727 km
Moon is 367 727 km (228 495 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 11 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 628 km (252 046 mi).
Moon before descending node
9 days after its ascending node on 5 May 2062 at 16:29 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 2 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 18 May 2062 at 08:14 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
9 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
3 days after previous North standstill on 11 May 2062 at 22:52 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.528°. Next 10 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.459° in the next southern standstill on 25 May 2062 at 13:58 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 7 days
After 7 days on 23 May 2062 at 07:03 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.