Waxing
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 55% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 55% and growing larger. The 8 days young Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 8 March 2033 at 01:27 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 ∠24° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1871"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1871" and ∠1933".
Worm Moon after 7 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2033 after 7 days on 16 March 2033 at 01:37.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 16 March 2033 at 01:37
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 24 March 2033 at 01:50
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 30 March 2033 at 17:52
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 6 April 2033 at 15:14
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 410 / 1363
The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 410 of Meeus index or 1363 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.39 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 28 minutes. It is 33 minutes longer 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 3 hours and 16 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 53 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠353°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠353°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠8.3°.
Moon after perigee
6 days after point of perigee on 1 March 2033 at 18:17 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 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 15 March 2033 at 22:00 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 383 128 km
The Moon is 383 128 km (238 065 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 368 km (252 505 mi).
Moon after descending node
4 days after descending node on 4 March 2033 at 01:01 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 18 March 2033 at 05:18 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
17 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 13:21 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠18.688°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-18.613° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 23 March 2033 at 08:32.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 16 March 2033 at 01:37 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.
