Waxing
Crescent ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
New Moon
New Moon is the lunar phase on . Surface of the Moon disc is not illuminated. The less than 1 day young Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 1 March 2014 at 08:00 UTC.
Moon phases for next 7 days
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Monday Mon
Tuesday Tue
Wednesday Wed
Thursday Thu
Friday Fri
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Moon phase and lunation details
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises at sunrise and sets at sunset. It's part facing the Earth is completely in shadow.
Moon in ♓ Pisces
Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1946" and ∠1936".
Worm Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2014 after 15 days on 16 March 2014 at 17:09.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 8 March 2014 at 13:27
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 16 March 2014 at 17:09
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 24 March 2014 at 01:46
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 30 March 2014 at 18:45
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.
New lunation 175 / 1128
At 08:00 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 175 of Meeus index or 1128 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.45 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 45 minutes. It is 45 minutes shorter 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 1 hour and 59 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 10 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠25.1°
The true anomaly is ∠25.1°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠46.9°.
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 27 February 2014 at 19:52 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 11 March 2014 at 19:46 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 368 400 km
The Moon is 368 400 km (228 913 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 367 km (251 883 mi).
Moon before descending node
9 days after ascending node on 20 February 2014 at 03:28 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 4 March 2014 at 17:45 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
9 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
5 days since the previous standstill on 24 February 2014 at 01:24 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.175°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.084° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 March 2014 at 22:54 in ♊ Gemini.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
