First
Quarter ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 50% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 50% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 14 September 2078 at 11:22 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 ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing about ∠22° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1788"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1788" and ∠1908".
Harvest Moon after 7 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2078 after 7 days on 21 September 2078 at 17:31.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 21 September 2078 at 17:31
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 28 September 2078 at 09:00
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 5 October 2078 at 23:06
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 14 October 2078 at 04:07
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 973 / 1926
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 973 of Meeus index or 1926 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.63 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 7 minutes. It is 2 hours and 43 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 23 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 40 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠115.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠115.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠146.4°.
Moon after apogee
2 days after point of apogee on 11 September 2078 at 14:50 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 September 2078 at 13:38 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 400 825 km
The Moon is 400 825 km (249 061 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 662 km (224 726 mi).
Moon after descending node
3 days after descending node on 11 September 2078 at 01:26 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 24 September 2078 at 13:18 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
17 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
13 days since the previous standstill on 1 September 2078 at 05:56 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.321°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-27.437° at the point of next southern standstill on 15 September 2078 at 16:23 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 21 September 2078 at 17:31 in ♓ Pisces 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.
