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

New Moon in Aquarius

New Moon on . The 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 February 2053 at 16:31 UTC.

Moonrise and moonset

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

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♒ Aquarius

Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.

Worm Moon after 14 days

Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2053 after 14 days on 4 March 2053 at 17:09.

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 ∠1822" and ∠1941".

New lunation 657 / 1610

At 16:31 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 657 of Meeus index or lunation 1610 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.61 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 40 minutes. It is 3 hours and 3 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 56 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 7 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠251.9°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠251.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠288°.

Moon after apogee

5 days since point of apogee on 13 February 2053 at 01:22 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 28 February 2053 at 20:20 in ♋ Cancer.

Distance to Moon 393 324 km

The Moon is 393 324 km (244 400 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 800 km (228 540 mi).

Moon before descending node

12 days after ascending node on 6 February 2053 at 03:39 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 20 February 2053 at 15:44 in ♓ Pisces.

Moon after southern standstill

4 days since the last southern standstill on 13 February 2053 at 20:10 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.230° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.174° at the point of next northern standstill on 27 February 2053 at 13:41 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo 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