New Moon
New MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

New Moon in Pisces

New Moon on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 0%. Lunar cycle is 1 day young.

* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 18 March 2045 at 17:15 UTC.

Moonrise and moonset

Moon rises at sunrise and sets at sunset. It's part facing the Earth is completely in shadow.

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♓ Pisces

Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♈ Aries later.

Pink Moon after 14 days

Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2045 after 14 days on 1 April 2045 at 18:43.

Spring tide

There is high New Moon ocean tide on this date. Combined Sun and Moon gravitational tidal force working on Earth is strong, because of the Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.

Apparent angular diameter

Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1808" and ∠1927".

New lunation 559 / 1512

At 17:15 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 559 of Meeus index or lunation 1512 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.59 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 12 minutes. It is 3 hours and 12 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit 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 1 hour and 28 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 35 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠238.6°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠238.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠274.3°.

Moon after apogee

4 days since point of apogee on 13 March 2045 at 18:23 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 29 March 2045 at 17:25 in ♌ Leo.

Distance to Moon 396 538 km

The Moon is 396 538 km (246 397 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 846 km (227 326 mi).

Moon after ascending node

1 day after ascending node on 16 March 2045 at 12:51 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 29 March 2045 at 22:04 in ♌ Leo.

Moon before northern standstill

7 days since the last southern standstill on 10 March 2045 at 22:47 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.164° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.089° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 March 2045 at 07:00 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy

The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov