Waxing
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
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Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 63% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 63% and growing larger. The 8 days young Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 17 October 2064 at 04:22 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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1832"
Lunar disc appears visually 5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1832" and ∠1927".
Hunter Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2064 after 6 days on 25 October 2064 at 07:06.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 25 October 2064 at 07:06
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 2 November 2064 at 04:24
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 8 November 2064 at 19:45
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 15 November 2064 at 20:14
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 801 / 1754
The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 801 of Meeus index or 1754 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.38 days
Length of current 801 lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 11 minutes. It is 1 hour and 33 minutes shorter than next lunation 802 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 33 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 36 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠359.5°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠359.5°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠14.9°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before apogee
8 days after point of perigee on 10 October 2064 at 11:14 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 24 October 2064 at 01:15 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 391 287 km
Moon is 391 287 km (243 134 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 5 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 377 km (252 511 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♒ Aquarius at 15:14 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from South to North. Moon will follow the northern part of its orbit for the next 14 days to meet descending node on 2 November 2064 at 05:22 in ♌ Leo.
New draconic month
At 15:14 on this date the Moon is completing its previous draconic month and is entering the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
3 days after previous South standstill on 14 October 2064 at 19:52 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-27.067°. Next 10 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠26.938° in the next northern standstill on 29 October 2064 at 10:35 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 6 days
After 6 days on 25 October 2064 at 07:06 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.