Waxing
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 58% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 58% and growing larger. The 8 days young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 9 October 2081 at 15:58 UTC.
Moon phases for next 7 days
Saturday Sat
Sunday Sun
Monday Mon
Tuesday Tue
Wednesday Wed
Thursday Thu
Friday Fri
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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1808"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1808" and ∠1922".
Hunter Moon after 7 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2081 after 7 days on 17 October 2081 at 20:50.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 17 October 2081 at 20:50
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 25 October 2081 at 11:13
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 1 November 2081 at 03:04
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 8 November 2081 at 09:40
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 1011 / 1964
The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1011 of Meeus index or 1964 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.4 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 41 minutes. It is 1 hour and 51 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 3 hours and 3 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 6 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠12.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠12.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠29.7°.
Moon before perigee
8 days after point of perigee on 1 October 2081 at 23:44 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 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 14 October 2081 at 14:03 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 396 403 km
The Moon is 396 403 km (246 313 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 721 km (252 103 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days after descending node on 1 October 2081 at 01:46 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 14 October 2081 at 11:52 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
23 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 after southern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 8 October 2081 at 03:37 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.464°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.369° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 October 2081 at 20:04 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 17 October 2081 at 20:50 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.
