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 2 March 2022 at 17:35 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 ∠9° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1900" and ∠1936".
Worm Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2022 after 15 days on 18 March 2022 at 07:17.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 10 March 2022 at 10:45
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 18 March 2022 at 07:17
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 25 March 2022 at 05:37
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 1 April 2022 at 06:24
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 274 / 1227
At 17:35 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 274 of Meeus index or 1227 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.53 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 50 minutes. It is 1 hour and 14 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 6 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 57 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠56.3°
The true anomaly is ∠56.3°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠89.8°.
Moon after perigee
3 days after point of perigee on 26 February 2022 at 22:18 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 10 March 2022 at 23:05 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 377 259 km
The Moon is 377 259 km (234 418 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 268 km (251 200 mi).
Moon before ascending node
7 days after descending node on 23 February 2022 at 06:54 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 8 March 2022 at 08:22 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
21 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
4 days since the previous standstill on 26 February 2022 at 06:37 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.559°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.674° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 March 2022 at 00:14 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.
