First
Quarter ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 48% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 48% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♌ Leo.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 14 May 2092 at 16:06 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 ♌ Leo
Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1854"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1854" and ∠1898".
Flower Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2092 after 6 days on 21 May 2092 at 10:00.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 21 May 2092 at 10:00
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 28 May 2092 at 03:46
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 5 June 2092 at 05:17
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 13 June 2092 at 02:33
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 1142 / 2095
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1142 of Meeus index or 2095 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.65 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 39 minutes. It is 46 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 55 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 8 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠167.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠167.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠190.3°.
Moon after apogee
6 days after point of apogee on 7 May 2092 at 23:16 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 21 May 2092 at 11:11 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 386 685 km
The Moon is 386 685 km (240 275 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 854 km (221 739 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♌ Leo at 03:08 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 12 days later on 26 May 2092 at 13:44 in ♒ Aquarius.
New draconic month
At 03:08 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after northern standstill
3 days since the previous standstill on 10 May 2092 at 22:54 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.946°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-20.010° at the point of next southern standstill on 23 May 2092 at 22:16 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 21 May 2092 at 10:00 in ♐ Sagittarius 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.
