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
Length of current 1128 lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 34 minutes. It is 1 hour and 47 minutes longer than next lunation 1129 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 50 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 13 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠165.8°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠165.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠189.5°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before perigee
6 days after point of apogee on 21 March 2091 at 17:48 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 6 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 4 April 2091 at 03:26 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 385 188 km
Moon is 385 188 km (239 345 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 6 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 356 783 km (221 695 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days after its descending node on 18 March 2091 at 15:30 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 4 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 1 April 2091 at 21:03 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
23 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon in northern standstill
At 00:55 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠18.531°. Next 12 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-18.596° in its southern standstill point on 9 April 2091 at 13:20 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 6 days
After 6 days on 4 April 2091 at 01:31 in ♎ Libra, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.