Waxing
Crescent ♈ Aries
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 ♈ Aries.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 24 March 2020 at 09:28 UTC.
Moon phases for next 7 days
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Thursday Thu
Friday Fri
Saturday Sat
Sunday Sun
Monday Mon
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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 ♈ Aries
Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1924".
Pink Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2020 after 14 days on 8 April 2020 at 02:35.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 1 April 2020 at 10:21
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 8 April 2020 at 02:35
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 14 April 2020 at 22:56
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 23 April 2020 at 02:26
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 250 / 1203
At 09:28 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 250 of Meeus index or 1203 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.71 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 58 minutes. It is 1 hour and 45 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the 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 4 hours and 14 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 49 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠177.9°
The true anomaly is ∠177.9°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠201.8°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 15:23. It is 14 days after previous perigee on 10 March 2020 at 06:33 in ♍ Virgo. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 14 days, until point of next perigee on 7 April 2020 at 18:08 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 406 690 km
This apogee Moon is 406 690 km (252 705 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest apogee of 2020. It is 1 282 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 19 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
7 days after descending node on 17 March 2020 at 01:00 in ♑ Capricorn. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 31 March 2020 at 16:51 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
19 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 17 March 2020 at 14:07 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.540°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.702° at the point of next northern standstill on 1 April 2020 at 09:12 in ♋ Cancer.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
