Moon phases and lunar diet

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Moon phase for 7 March 2010 Sunday

Moon phase for 7 March 2010 Sunday

Moon phase, position of the lunar cycle, dates of full moon and new moon.

UTC

7 March 2010 Sunday
Time: 12:00
JD 2455263

Universal Coordinated Time
Casablanca, Monrovia

Lunar phase on 7 March 2010 Sunday is Last Quarter.
The moon is in zodiac sign Sagittarius The moon is in zodiac sign Sagittarius.

The moon is Last Quarter on 7 March 2010 Sunday

Moon phases from
the current moon cycle:

New Moon New Moon
on 2010-02-14 02:53
before 21.4 days

First Quarter First Quarter
on 2010-02-22 00:42
before 13.5 days

Full Moon Full Moon
on 2010-02-28 16:38
before 6.8 days

Last Quarter Last Quarter
on 2010-03-07 15:44
after 0.2 day

New Moon New Moon (next)
on 2010-03-15 22:03
after 8.4 days

The moon is growing smaller (old moon)
Fraction of the moon: 0.74431221278191
Illumination of the moon disk: 52 %

Moon angular diameter: 0.51 °
Sun angular diameter: 0.54 °

Moon distance:
393031.84 km

Sun distance:
148477190.85 km

Moon phases for the days after 7 March 2010

2010 March
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
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For calculation of the lunar phase and the course of the moon through the zodiac is taken the moon fraction at 12 o'clock noon on the given date.

When crossing the zodiac from one zodiac sign to another, often for a short time Moon is Void of course moon. This phenomenon is not marked in the table above.

From New moon to Full moon the Moon is growing bigger (young moon), and after Full moon it is growing small (old moon).

The time the Moon makes a complete orbit around the Earth (sidereal period) is 27.321661 days. The time between two consecutive New moon phases is 29.53058867 days.