First
Quarter ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 47% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 47% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 22 March 2067 at 18:44 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 ∠1° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1781"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1781" and ∠1925".
Worm Moon after 8 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2067 after 8 days on 30 March 2067 at 20:08.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 30 March 2067 at 20:08
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 6 April 2067 at 23:37
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 13 April 2067 at 19:23
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 21 April 2067 at 14:15
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 831 / 1784
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 831 of Meeus index or 1784 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.45 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 55 minutes. It is 1 hour and 2 minutes shorter 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 49 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 20 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠37.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠37.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠63.8°.
Moon before perigee
9 days after point of perigee on 13 March 2067 at 00:40 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 24 March 2067 at 19:49 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 402 376 km
The Moon is 402 376 km (250 025 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 668 km (251 449 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♊ Gemini at 03:17 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 13 days later on 5 April 2067 at 05:55 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 21 March 2067 at 15:43 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.428°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.296° at the point of next southern standstill on 4 April 2067 at 22:26 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 days on 30 March 2067 at 20:08 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.
