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 1 day young Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 18 February 2015 at 23:47 UTC.
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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 ∠8° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1941".
Worm Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2015 after 14 days on 5 March 2015 at 18:06.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 25 February 2015 at 17:14
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 5 March 2015 at 18:06
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 13 March 2015 at 17:48
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 20 March 2015 at 09:36
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 187 / 1140
At 23:47 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 187 of Meeus index or 1140 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.41 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 49 minutes. It is 28 minutes longer 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 2 hours and 55 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 14 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠354.5°
The true anomaly is ∠354.5°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠9.9°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 07:29. It is 13 days after previous apogee on 6 February 2015 at 06:25 in ♍ Virgo. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 13 days, until point of next apogee on 5 March 2015 at 07:35 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 356 992 km
This perigee Moon is 356 992 km (221 825 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 516 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 13 364 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
10 days after ascending node on 8 February 2015 at 17:10 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 21 February 2015 at 16:05 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
10 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
4 days since the previous standstill on 14 February 2015 at 17:17 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.402°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.335° at the point of next northern standstill on 27 February 2015 at 07:19 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.
