First
Quarter ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 54% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 54% and growing larger. The 8 days young Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 4 March 2066 at 02:48 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 ∠18° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1935".
Worm Moon after 7 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2066 after 7 days on 11 March 2066 at 22:48.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 11 March 2066 at 22:48
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 18 March 2066 at 19:25
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 25 March 2066 at 22:13
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 2 April 2066 at 23:09
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 818 / 1771
The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 818 of Meeus index or 1771 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.56 days
Length of current 818 lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 23 minutes. It is 53 minutes shorter than next lunation 819 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 39 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 6 hours and 24 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠61.6°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠61.6°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠96.6°. 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 in apogee
Moon is reaching point of apogee on this date at 06:48, this is 12 days after last perigee on 20 February 2066 at 01:15 in ♑ Capricorn. Lunar orbit is starting to get closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth for 12 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next perigee on 16 March 2066 at 19:50 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 404 251 km
This apogee Moon is 404 251 km (251 190 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 157 km farther than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 458 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
11 days after its ascending node on 20 February 2066 at 21:32 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 2 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 6 March 2066 at 20:17 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
11 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon in northern standstill
At 15:15 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠25.268°. Next 13 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-25.141° in its southern standstill point on 18 March 2066 at 04:52 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 7 days
After 7 days on 11 March 2066 at 22:48 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.