First
Quarter ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 54% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 54% and growing larger. The 8 days young Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 9 December 2062 at 03:28 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 ♓ Pisces
Moon is passing about ∠22° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1801"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1801" and ∠1948".
Cold Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2062 after 6 days on 16 December 2062 at 08:17.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 16 December 2062 at 08:17
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 22 December 2062 at 23:40
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 30 December 2062 at 16:57
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 7 January 2063 at 22:16
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 778 / 1731
The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 778 of Meeus index or 1731 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.75 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 56 minutes. It is 1 hour and 30 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 5 hours and 12 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 51 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠123°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠123°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠154.3°.
Moon after apogee
3 days after point of apogee on 5 December 2062 at 19:32 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 16 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 26 December 2062 at 08:56 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 397 994 km
The Moon is 397 994 km (247 302 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 16 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 616 km (221 591 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♓ Pisces at 04:14 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 12 days later on 21 December 2062 at 21:32 in ♍ Virgo.
New draconic month
At 04:14 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 2 December 2062 at 12:24 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.324°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.313° at the point of next northern standstill on 16 December 2062 at 13:49 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 16 December 2062 at 08:17 in ♊ Gemini 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.
