Waxing
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
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
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 11 minutes. It is 1 hour and 33 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 33 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 36 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠359.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠359.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠14.9°.
Moon before perigee
8 days after point of perigee on 10 October 2064 at 11:14 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 24 October 2064 at 01:15 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 391 287 km
The Moon is 391 287 km (243 134 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 377 km (252 511 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♒ Aquarius at 15:14 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 2 November 2064 at 05:22 in ♌ Leo.
New draconic month
At 15:14 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
3 days since the previous standstill on 14 October 2064 at 19:52 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.067°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.938° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 October 2064 at 10:35 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 25 October 2064 at 07:06 in ♉ Taurus 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.
