First
Quarter ♏ Scorpio
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 ♏ Scorpio.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 6 August 2087 at 11:43 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 ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1892".
Sturgeon Moon after 7 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2087 after 7 days on 14 August 2087 at 06:54.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 14 August 2087 at 06:54
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 21 August 2087 at 03:34
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 28 August 2087 at 05:08
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 5 September 2087 at 05:49
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 1083 / 2036
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1083 of Meeus index or 2036 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.45 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 48 minutes. It is 2 hours 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 1 hour and 56 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 13 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠62.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠62.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠95.4°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 16:39. It is 12 days after previous perigee on 25 July 2087 at 08:02 in ♊ Gemini. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 12 days, until point of next perigee on 19 August 2087 at 10:24 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 404 051 km
This apogee Moon is 404 051 km (251 066 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest apogee of 2087. It is 1 357 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 0 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
12 days after descending node on 24 July 2087 at 12:18 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 7 August 2087 at 01:46 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
26 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 26 July 2087 at 09:39 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.684°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-20.587° at the point of next southern standstill on 9 August 2087 at 10:48 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 14 August 2087 at 06:54 in ♒ Aquarius 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.
