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Moon phase on 25 March 2056 Saturday is First Quarter, 8 days young Moon is in Cancer.

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Lunar calendar 2056 | March 2056

First Quarter phase
First Quarter phase
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.

First Quarter 60% illuminated

First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 60% and growing larger. The 8 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.

* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 24 March 2056 at 11:17 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 ♋ Cancer

Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1846"

Lunar disc appears visually 4.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1846" and ∠1923".

Worm Moon after 5 days

Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2056 after 5 days on 31 March 2056 at 10:25.

Upcoming main Moon phases

Neap tide

There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.

Lunation 695 / 1648

The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 695 of Meeus index or 1648 from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.71 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 58 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2056. It is 42 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 14 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 49 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit position on

True anomaly ∠147°

At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠147°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠172.8°.

Moon after apogee

5 days after point of apogee on 19 March 2056 at 13:34 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 1 April 2056 at 03:57 in ♎ Libra.

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Distance to Moon 388 365 km

The Moon is 388 365 km (241 319 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 689 km (222 258 mi).

Moon before ascending node

13 days after descending node on 11 March 2056 at 17:34 in ♑ Capricorn. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 26 March 2056 at 07:57 in ♋ Cancer.

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Draconic month

26 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.

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Moon at northern standstill

At 00:14 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠21.456°. Over the next 12 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-21.566° at the point of next standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 6 April 2056 at 13:41.

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Syzygy in 5 days

In 5 days on 31 March 2056 at 10:25 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.

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