Waxing
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 60% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 60% and growing larger. The 8 days young Moon is in ♌ Leo.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 5 May 2063 at 15:20 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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1972"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1902".
Flower Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2063 after 6 days on 12 May 2063 at 13:11.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 12 May 2063 at 13:11
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 20 May 2063 at 09:16
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 28 May 2063 at 01:47
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 3 June 2063 at 20:28
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 783 / 1736
The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 783 of Meeus index or 1736 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.45 days
Length of current 783 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 55 minutes. It is 2 hours and 16 minutes longer than next lunation 784 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 49 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 20 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠270.1°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠270.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠301.9°. 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 in perigee
Moon is reaching point of perigee on this date at 19:05, this is 14 days after last apogee on 22 April 2063 at 02:01 in ♒ Aquarius. Lunar orbit is starting to get wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth for 13 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next apogee on 19 May 2063 at 21:24 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 369 614 km
This perigee Moon is 369 614 km (229 667 mi) away from Earth. It is 7 106 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 742 km farther than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
12 days after its ascending node on 24 April 2063 at 02:28 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 7 May 2063 at 10:50 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
12 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
4 days after previous North standstill on 2 May 2063 at 05:04 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.247°. Next 8 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.173° in the next southern standstill on 15 May 2063 at 05:16 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 6 days
After 6 days on 12 May 2063 at 13:11 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.