Waxing
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 57% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 57% 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 2044 at 21:17 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 ∠4° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1933".
Worm Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2044 after 6 days on 13 March 2044 at 19:41.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 13 March 2044 at 19:41
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 21 March 2044 at 16:52
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 29 March 2044 at 09:26
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 5 April 2044 at 03:45
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 546 / 1499
The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 546 of Meeus index or 1499 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.55 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 14 minutes. It is 2 hours and 58 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 30 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 33 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠272.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠272.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠304.8°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 20:36. It is 14 days after previous apogee on 22 February 2044 at 05:18 in ♐ Sagittarius. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 13 days, until point of next apogee on 21 March 2044 at 01:56 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 369 930 km
This perigee Moon is 369 930 km (229 864 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest perigee of 2044. It is 7 422 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 426 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
6 days after ascending node on 29 February 2044 at 14:57 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 13 March 2044 at 13:10 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 16:53 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠28.650°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2044. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-28.641° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 21 March 2044 at 10:24.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 13 March 2044 at 19:41 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.
