First
Quarter ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 47% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 47% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 17 March 2005 at 19:19 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 ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1783"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1783" and ∠1928".
Worm Moon after 8 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2005 after 8 days on 25 March 2005 at 20:58.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 25 March 2005 at 20:58
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 2 April 2005 at 00:50
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 8 April 2005 at 20:32
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 16 April 2005 at 14:37
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 64 / 1017
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 64 of Meeus index or 1017 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.47 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 22 minutes. It is 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 22 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 47 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠36.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠36.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠62.3°.
Moon before perigee
9 days after point of perigee on 8 March 2005 at 03:42 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 19 March 2005 at 22:54 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 401 990 km
The Moon is 401 990 km (249 785 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 848 km (251 561 mi).
Moon after ascending node
4 days after ascending node on 12 March 2005 at 17:37 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 27 March 2005 at 05:15 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
4 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
12 days since the previous standstill on 5 March 2005 at 04:40 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.257°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠28.325° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 March 2005 at 08:25 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 days on 25 March 2005 at 20:58 in ♍ Virgo 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.
