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 1 April 2022 at 06:24 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 ♈ Aries
Moon is passing about ∠15° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1843" and ∠1920".
Pink Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2022 after 15 days on 16 April 2022 at 18:55.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 9 April 2022 at 06:47
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 16 April 2022 at 18:55
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 23 April 2022 at 11:56
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 30 April 2022 at 20:28
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 275 / 1228
At 06:24 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 275 of Meeus index or 1228 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.59 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 4 minutes. It is 58 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 1 hour and 20 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 43 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠89.8°
The true anomaly is ∠89.8°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠126°.
Moon before perigee
8 days after point of perigee on 23 March 2022 at 23:28 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 7 April 2022 at 19:11 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 388 953 km
The Moon is 388 953 km (241 684 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 438 km (251 306 mi).
Moon before ascending node
10 days after descending node on 22 March 2022 at 08:12 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 4 April 2022 at 13:05 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
24 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 before northern standstill
7 days since the previous standstill on 25 March 2022 at 11:58 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.787°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.880° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 April 2022 at 08:15 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.
