First
Quarter ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 51% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 51% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 12 March 2030 at 08:48 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 ∠1782"
Lunar disc appears visually 8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1782" and ∠1931".
Worm Moon after 7 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2030 after 7 days on 19 March 2030 at 17:56.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 19 March 2030 at 17:56
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 26 March 2030 at 09:51
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 2 April 2030 at 22:02
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 11 April 2030 at 02:57
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 373 / 1326
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 373 of Meeus index or 1326 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.64 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 28 minutes. It is 42 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 44 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 19 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠104.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠104.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠139°.
Moon after apogee
2 days after point of apogee on 10 March 2030 at 02:23 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 21 March 2030 at 22:00 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 402 151 km
The Moon is 402 151 km (249 885 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 974 km (225 542 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♊ Gemini at 06:43 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 12 days later on 25 March 2030 at 05:48 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
14 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 01:51 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠23.130°. Over the next 12 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-23.011° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 25 March 2030 at 03:57.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 19 March 2030 at 17:56 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.
