First
Quarter ♊ Gemini
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 48% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 48% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 1 March 2077 at 16:11 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 ∠9° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1878"
Lunar disc appears visually 3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1878" and ∠1936".
Worm Moon after 8 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2077 after 8 days on 9 March 2077 at 17:42.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 9 March 2077 at 17:42
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 17 March 2077 at 16:56
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 24 March 2077 at 08:24
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 31 March 2077 at 07:02
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 954 / 1907
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 954 of Meeus index or 1907 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.39 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 18 minutes. It is 22 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 26 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 43 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠355.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠355.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠10.8°.
Moon after perigee
6 days after point of perigee on 23 February 2077 at 05:20 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 9 March 2077 at 03:31 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 381 666 km
The Moon is 381 666 km (237 156 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 511 km (252 594 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♊ Gemini at 17:53 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 16 March 2077 at 09:32 in ♐ Sagittarius.
New draconic month
At 17:53 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
10 days since the previous standstill on 19 February 2077 at 06:40 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.259°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.349° at the point of next northern standstill on 3 March 2077 at 22:10 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 days on 9 March 2077 at 17:42 in ♍ Virgo 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.
