First Quarter on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 54% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 8 days young.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 14 March 2038 at 03:42 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 ∠2° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2038 after 6 days on 21 March 2038 at 02:09.
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 5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1835" and ∠1930".
The Moon is 8 days young and navigating through the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 472 of Meeus index or 1425 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 28 minutes and it is 51 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2038. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 44 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 19 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠149.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠175.3°.
5 days since point of apogee on 9 March 2038 at 00:39 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 21 March 2038 at 17:16 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 390 553 km (242 678 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 387 km (222 070 mi).
13 days after descending node on 1 March 2038 at 08:52 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 15 March 2038 at 23:29 in ♋ Cancer.
13 days since the last southern standstill on 28 February 2038 at 20:34 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.311° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠22.441° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 March 2038 at 13:46 in ♋ Cancer.
25 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
In 6 days on 21 March 2038 at 02:09 in ♎ Libra 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