Waxing
Gibbous ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 53% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 53% and growing larger. The 8 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 18 March 2062 at 05:58 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 is entering ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1927".
Worm Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2062 after 6 days on 25 March 2062 at 03:35.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 25 March 2062 at 03:35
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 1 April 2062 at 23:55
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 9 April 2062 at 17:17
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 16 April 2062 at 12:03
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 769 / 1722
The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 769 of Meeus index or 1722 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.54 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 4 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 20 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 43 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠268.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠268.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠301.6°.
Moon before apogee
13 days after point of apogee on 4 March 2062 at 17:42 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 March 2062 at 16:28 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 363 330 km
The Moon is 363 330 km (225 763 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 624 km (229 674 mi).
Moon before descending node
6 days after ascending node on 11 March 2062 at 23:34 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 24 March 2062 at 21:44 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 10:24 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠28.705°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2062. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-28.700° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 31 March 2062 at 23:35.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 25 March 2062 at 03:35 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.
