First
Quarter ♊ Gemini
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 49% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 49% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 6 February 2063 at 13:37 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 ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing about ∠17° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1881"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1881" and ∠1946".
Snow Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2063 after 6 days on 13 February 2063 at 05:48.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 13 February 2063 at 05:48
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 20 February 2063 at 03:07
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 28 February 2063 at 07:38
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 8 March 2063 at 01:06
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 780 / 1733
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 780 of Meeus index or 1733 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.8 days
Length of current 780 lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 15 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2063. It is 2 hours and 3 minutes longer than next lunation 781 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 6 hours and 31 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 32 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠179.8°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠179.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠204.9°. 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
7 days after point of apogee on 29 January 2063 at 13:00 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 6 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 12 February 2063 at 19:32 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 381 015 km
Moon is 381 015 km (236 752 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 6 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 356 965 km (221 808 mi).
Moon after ascending node
5 days after its ascending node on 1 February 2063 at 08:33 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 7 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 14 February 2063 at 11:10 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
5 days 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
11 days after previous South standstill on 25 January 2063 at 23:21 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.406°. Next 2 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠28.472° in the next northern standstill on 9 February 2063 at 10:17 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 6 days
After 6 days on 13 February 2063 at 05:48 in ♌ Leo, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.