First
Quarter ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 52% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 52% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 28 March 2091 at 06:31 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 ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1861"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1861" and ∠1922".
Pink Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2091 after 6 days on 4 April 2091 at 01:31.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 4 April 2091 at 01:31
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 10 April 2091 at 18:45
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 18 April 2091 at 21:20
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 26 April 2091 at 18:20
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 1128 / 2081
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1128 of Meeus index or 2081 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.73 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 34 minutes. It is 1 hour and 47 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 4 hours and 50 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 13 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠165.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠165.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠189.5°.
Moon before apogee
6 days after point of apogee on 21 March 2091 at 17:48 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 4 April 2091 at 03:26 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 385 188 km
The Moon is 385 188 km (239 345 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 783 km (221 695 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days after descending node on 18 March 2091 at 15:30 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 1 April 2091 at 21:03 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
23 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 00:55 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠18.531°. Over the next 12 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-18.596° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 9 April 2091 at 13:20.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 4 April 2091 at 01:31 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.
