First
Quarter ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 45% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 45% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 17 November 2091 at 23:38 UTC.
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Moon phase and lunation details
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing about ∠20° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1856"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1856" and ∠1941".
Beaver Moon after 8 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2091 after 8 days on 26 November 2091 at 03:43.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 26 November 2091 at 03:43
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 3 December 2091 at 22:55
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 10 December 2091 at 13:54
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 17 December 2091 at 17:29
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 1136 / 2089
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1136 of Meeus index or 2089 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.43 days
Length of current 1136 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 12 minutes. It is 1 hour and 31 minutes shorter than next lunation 1137 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 32 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 37 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠4.7°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠4.7°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠20.8°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before apogee
6 days after point of perigee on 10 November 2091 at 21:06 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 6 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 23 November 2091 at 23:32 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 386 118 km
Moon is 386 118 km (239 923 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 6 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 275 km (252 448 mi).
Moon before descending node
11 days after its ascending node on 5 November 2091 at 17:50 in ♌ Leo, 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 18 November 2091 at 04:24 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
11 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
3 days after previous South standstill on 14 November 2091 at 09:21 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-19.311°. Next 11 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠19.417° in the next northern standstill on 28 November 2091 at 22:15 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 8 days
After 8 days on 26 November 2091 at 03:43 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.