First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 59% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 8 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 6 March 2025 at 16:32 UTC.
The moon rises at noon and sets at midnight. It is visible high in the southern sky in early evening.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2025 after 6 days on 14 March 2025 at 06:55.
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.
Lunar disc appears visually 0.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1923" and ∠1933".
The Moon is 8 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 311 of Meeus index or 1264 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 13 minutes and it is 1 hour and 40 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 31 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 38 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠329.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠346.9°.
5 days since point of perigee on 1 March 2025 at 21:18 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 17 March 2025 at 16:37 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 372 762 km (231 624 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 754 km (252 124 mi).
6 days after ascending node on 1 March 2025 at 05:40 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 14 March 2025 at 13:45 in ♍ Virgo.
At 15:56 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠28.710°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2025. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-28.719° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 22 March 2025 at 06:47.
6 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 14 March 2025 at 06:55 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.
Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com
Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov