First
Quarter ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 46% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 46% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 29 November 2071 at 21:06 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 is entering ♓ Pisces
Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1776"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1776" and ∠1946".
Cold Moon after 7 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2071 after 7 days on 7 December 2071 at 06:57.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 7 December 2071 at 06:57
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 13 December 2071 at 22:57
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 21 December 2071 at 11:47
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 29 December 2071 at 17:16
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 889 / 1842
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 889 of Meeus index or 1842 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.7 days
Length of current 889 lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 47 minutes. It is 2 hours and 1 minute shorter than next lunation 890 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 3 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠102.9°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠102.9°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠138.1°. 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 after apogee
1 day after point of apogee on 27 November 2071 at 16:12 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 9 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 9 December 2071 at 10:47 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 403 502 km
Moon is 403 502 km (250 725 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 9 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 362 998 km (225 556 mi).
Moon before descending node
12 days after its ascending node on 17 November 2071 at 01:15 in ♍ Virgo, 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 1 December 2071 at 07:18 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
12 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
5 days after previous South standstill on 24 November 2071 at 07:52 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-18.413°. Next 8 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠18.456° in the next northern standstill on 8 December 2071 at 10:00 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 7 days
After 7 days on 7 December 2071 at 06:57 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.