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 ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 25 March 2007 at 18:16 UTC.
Moon phases for next 7 days
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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 is entering ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1900"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1900" and ∠1924".
Pink Moon after 8 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2007 after 8 days on 2 April 2007 at 17:15.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 2 April 2007 at 17:15
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 10 April 2007 at 18:04
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 17 April 2007 at 11:36
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 24 April 2007 at 06:36
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 89 / 1042
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 89 of Meeus index or 1042 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.37 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 53 minutes. It is 1 hour and 2 minutes longer 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 3 hours and 51 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 18 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠348.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠348.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠4°.
Moon after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 19 March 2007 at 18:39 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 3 April 2007 at 08:38 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 377 210 km
The Moon is 377 210 km (234 387 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 327 km (252 480 mi).
Moon before descending node
7 days after ascending node on 18 March 2007 at 07:40 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 31 March 2007 at 11:41 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
7 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 05:37 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠28.582°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-28.510° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 8 April 2007 at 23:01.
Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 days on 2 April 2007 at 17:15 in ♎ Libra 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.
