First
Quarter ♊ Gemini
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 28 February 2050 at 11:29 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 ∠10° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1843"
Lunar disc appears visually 5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1843" and ∠1937".
Worm Moon after 8 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2050 after 8 days on 8 March 2050 at 15:23.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 8 March 2050 at 15:23
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 16 March 2050 at 10:08
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 23 March 2050 at 00:41
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 30 March 2050 at 04:17
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 620 / 1573
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 620 of Meeus index or 1573 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.4 days
Length of current 620 lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 37 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2050. It is 8 minutes shorter than next lunation 621 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 7 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 2 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠5.4°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠5.4°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠21.6°. 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
7 days after point of perigee on 21 February 2050 at 07:31 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 6 March 2050 at 08:19 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 388 988 km
Moon is 388 988 km (241 706 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 5 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 338 km (252 487 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after its descending node on 27 February 2050 at 05:47 in ♉ Taurus, 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 13 March 2050 at 20:52 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
13 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
11 days after previous South standstill on 16 February 2050 at 15:15 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-20.958°. Next day the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠20.850° in the next northern standstill on 1 March 2050 at 05:11 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 8 days
After 8 days on 8 March 2050 at 15:23 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.