Waxing
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 62% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 62% and growing larger. The 8 days young Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 2 March 2058 at 05:10 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 ∠3° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1776"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1776" and ∠1935".
Worm Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2058 after 6 days on 10 March 2058 at 08:52.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 10 March 2058 at 08:52
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 17 March 2058 at 15:56
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 24 March 2058 at 09:50
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 1 April 2058 at 01:03
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 719 / 1672
The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 719 of Meeus index or 1672 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.45 days
Length of current 719 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 53 minutes. It is 46 minutes shorter than next lunation 720 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 51 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 18 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠28.2°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠28.2°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠50.9°. 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
10 days after point of perigee on 21 February 2058 at 06:06 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 5 March 2058 at 03:58 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 403 639 km
Moon is 403 639 km (250 810 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next day until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 080 km (251 705 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after its ascending node on 2 March 2058 at 22:25 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 13 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 17 March 2058 at 01:12 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
1 day after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
12 days after previous South standstill on 19 February 2058 at 08:23 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-24.665°. Next day the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠24.758° in the next northern standstill on 4 March 2058 at 15:47 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 6 days
After 6 days on 10 March 2058 at 08:52 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.