First
Quarter ♊ Gemini
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 49% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 49% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 8 March 2014 at 13:27 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 ∠17° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1796"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1796" and ∠1933".
Worm Moon after 8 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2014 after 8 days on 16 March 2014 at 17:09.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 16 March 2014 at 17:09
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 24 March 2014 at 01:46
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 30 March 2014 at 18:45
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 7 April 2014 at 08:31
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 175 / 1128
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 175 of Meeus index or 1128 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.45 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 45 minutes. It is 45 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 59 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 10 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠25.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠25.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠46.9°.
Moon before perigee
8 days after point of perigee on 27 February 2014 at 19:52 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 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 11 March 2014 at 19:46 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 399 156 km
The Moon is 399 156 km (248 024 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 367 km (251 883 mi).
Moon after descending node
3 days after descending node on 4 March 2014 at 17:45 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 19 March 2014 at 06:30 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
16 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 22:54 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠19.084°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-18.997° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 23 March 2014 at 07:28.
Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 days on 16 March 2014 at 17:09 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.
