Waxing
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 59% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 59% and growing larger. The 8 days young Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 6 March 2025 at 16:32 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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1923"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1923" and ∠1933".
Worm Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2025 after 6 days on 14 March 2025 at 06:55.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 14 March 2025 at 06:55
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 22 March 2025 at 11:30
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 29 March 2025 at 10:58
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 5 April 2025 at 02:15
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 311 / 1264
The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 311 of Meeus index or 1264 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.43 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 13 minutes. It is 1 hour and 40 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
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.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠329.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠329.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠346.9°.
Moon after perigee
5 days after 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.
Distance to Moon 372 762 km
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).
Moon after ascending node
6 days after ascending node on 1 March 2025 at 05:40 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 14 March 2025 at 13:45 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
6 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 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 next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-28.719° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 22 March 2025 at 06:47.
Syzygy in 6 days
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.
