Waxing
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 61% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 61% and growing larger. The 8 days young Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 27 February 2023 at 08:06 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 ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1795"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1795" and ∠1937".
Worm Moon after 7 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2023 after 7 days on 7 March 2023 at 12:40.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 7 March 2023 at 12:40
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 15 March 2023 at 02:08
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 21 March 2023 at 17:23
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 29 March 2023 at 02:32
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 286 / 1239
The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 286 of Meeus index or 1239 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.43 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 17 minutes. It is 32 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 2 hours and 27 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 42 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠15.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠15.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠34.1°.
Moon before perigee
9 days after point of perigee on 19 February 2023 at 09:06 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 3 March 2023 at 18:01 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 399 290 km
The Moon is 399 290 km (248 107 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 890 km (252 208 mi).
Moon after ascending node
3 days after ascending node on 24 February 2023 at 18:56 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 11 March 2023 at 08:53 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
3 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
11 days since the previous standstill on 16 February 2023 at 14:36 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.629°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠27.716° at the point of next northern standstill on 1 March 2023 at 14:09 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 7 March 2023 at 12:40 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.
