First
Quarter ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 47% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 47% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 11 June 2065 at 19:25 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 ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing about ∠17° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1923"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1923" and ∠1889".
Strawberry Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2065 after 6 days on 18 June 2065 at 09:28.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 18 June 2065 at 09:28
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 25 June 2065 at 14:08
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 3 July 2065 at 17:16
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 11 July 2065 at 01:16
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 809 / 1762
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 809 of Meeus index or 1762 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.59 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 11 minutes. It is 1 hour and 41 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 27 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 36 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠206.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠206.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠235.9°.
Moon before apogee
10 days after point of apogee on 1 June 2065 at 09:08 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 16 June 2065 at 20:01 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 372 670 km
The Moon is 372 670 km (231 566 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 552 km (224 037 mi).
Moon after descending node
3 days after descending node on 7 June 2065 at 16:41 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 20 June 2065 at 10:37 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
18 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 4 June 2065 at 16:59 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.155°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.172° at the point of next southern standstill on 17 June 2065 at 22:40 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 18 June 2065 at 09:28 in ♐ Sagittarius 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.
