Waxing
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 54% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 54% and growing larger. The 8 days young Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 10 September 2081 at 02:21 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 ∠23° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1859"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1859" and ∠1906".
Harvest Moon after 7 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2081 after 7 days on 18 September 2081 at 03:45.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 18 September 2081 at 03:45
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 26 September 2081 at 01:30
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 2 October 2081 at 17:23
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 9 October 2081 at 15:58
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 1010 / 1963
The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1010 of Meeus index or 1963 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.35 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 22 minutes. It is 1 hour and 19 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 4 hours and 22 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 47 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠357.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠357.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠12.5°.
Moon before perigee
6 days after point of perigee on 3 September 2081 at 13:09 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 17 September 2081 at 08:20 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 385 558 km
The Moon is 385 558 km (239 575 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 234 km (252 422 mi).
Moon before ascending node
6 days after descending node on 3 September 2081 at 14:55 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 17 September 2081 at 06:18 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
20 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 20:08 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.547°. Over the next 15 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.512° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 25 September 2081 at 14:31.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 18 September 2081 at 03:45 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.
