First
Quarter ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 50% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 50% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 11 March 2049 at 11:26 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 ∠22° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1776"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1776" and ∠1931".
Worm Moon after 8 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2049 after 8 days on 19 March 2049 at 12:23.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 19 March 2049 at 12:23
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 26 March 2049 at 15:10
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 2 April 2049 at 11:39
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 10 April 2049 at 07:27
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 608 / 1561
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 608 of Meeus index or 1561 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.48 days
Length of current 608 lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 28 minutes. It is 1 hour and 4 minutes shorter than next lunation 609 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 16 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 53 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠39.7°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠39.7°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠67°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before apogee
9 days after point of perigee on 1 March 2049 at 12:45 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next apogee on 13 March 2049 at 07:24 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 403 547 km
Moon is 403 547 km (250 752 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next day until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 598 km (251 406 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after its descending node on 10 March 2049 at 19:09 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 13 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 24 March 2049 at 20:47 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
13 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon in northern standstill
At 05:37 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠22.452°. Next 13 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-22.314° in its southern standstill point on 25 March 2049 at 08:26 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 8 days
After 8 days on 19 March 2049 at 12:23 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.