First
Quarter ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 51% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 51% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 4 October 2068 at 10:23 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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1893"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1893" and ∠1919".
Hunter Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2068 after 6 days on 11 October 2068 at 01:39.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 11 October 2068 at 01:39
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 18 October 2068 at 00:00
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 26 October 2068 at 04:17
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 2 November 2068 at 20:38
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 850 / 1803
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 850 of Meeus index or 1803 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.73 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 29 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2068. It is 4 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 4 hours and 45 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 18 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠183.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠183.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠209.1°.
Moon before apogee
8 days after point of apogee on 26 September 2068 at 00:00 in ♎ Libra. 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 10 October 2068 at 11:20 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 378 742 km
The Moon is 378 742 km (235 339 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 423 km (222 092 mi).
Moon after ascending node
3 days after ascending node on 30 September 2068 at 14:29 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 13 October 2068 at 09:31 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
3 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 2 October 2068 at 15:38 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.769°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.707° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 October 2068 at 05:07 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 11 October 2068 at 01:39 in ♈ Aries 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.
