Waxing
Gibbous ♉ Taurus
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 ♈ Aries.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 1 January 2088 at 17:54 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 ♈ Aries
Moon is passing about ∠22° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1947"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1947" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2088 after 5 days on 8 January 2088 at 09:37.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 8 January 2088 at 09:37
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 15 January 2088 at 15:13
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 23 January 2088 at 19:38
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 31 January 2088 at 03:33
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunation 1088 / 2041
The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1088 of Meeus index or 2041 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.75 days
Length of current 1088 lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 56 minutes. It is 2 hours and 25 minutes longer than next lunation 1089 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 12 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 51 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠208.8°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠208.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠241.2°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before perigee
11 days after point of apogee on 22 December 2087 at 02:07 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 4 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 6 January 2088 at 19:17 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 368 229 km
Moon is 368 229 km (228 807 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 4 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 360 758 km (224 165 mi).
Moon before descending node
12 days after its ascending node on 21 December 2087 at 00:25 in ♏ Scorpio, 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 4 January 2088 at 02:18 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
12 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
9 days after previous South standstill on 23 December 2087 at 22:55 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-20.078°. Next 4 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠20.031° in the next northern standstill on 6 January 2088 at 13:10 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 5 days
After 5 days on 8 January 2088 at 09:37 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.