New Moon on . The illuminated surface of the Moon is 0%. Lunar cycle is 1 day young.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 17 February 2026 at 12:01 UTC.
The moon rises at sunrise and sets at sunset. It's part facing the Earth is completely in shadow.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2026 after 13 days on 3 March 2026 at 11:38.
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.
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1856" and ∠1941".
At 12:01 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 323 of Meeus index or lunation 1276 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 22 minutes. It is 2 hours and 54 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 38 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 25 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠276.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠307.9°.
6 days since point of apogee on 10 February 2026 at 16:52 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 24 February 2026 at 23:18 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 386 262 km (240 012 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 370 132 km (229 989 mi).
13 days after descending node on 3 February 2026 at 19:18 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 18 February 2026 at 06:19 in ♓ Pisces.
4 days since the last southern standstill on 12 February 2026 at 12:56 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.406° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.428° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 February 2026 at 23:23 in ♊ Gemini.
26 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com
Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov
