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 less than 1 day young Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 13 February 2029 at 10:31 UTC.
Moon phases for next 7 days
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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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1794" and ∠1943".
Snow Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2029 after 15 days on 28 February 2029 at 17:10.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 21 February 2029 at 15:10
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 28 February 2029 at 17:10
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 7 March 2029 at 07:52
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 15 March 2029 at 04:19
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 360 / 1313
At 10:31 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 360 of Meeus index or 1313 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.74 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 48 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2029. It is 27 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 4 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 59 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠136.2°
The true anomaly is ∠136.2°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠164.5°.
Moon before perigee
11 days after point of perigee on 1 February 2029 at 12:21 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 17 February 2029 at 11:59 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 399 442 km
The Moon is 399 442 km (248 202 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 812 km (252 160 mi).
Moon after ascending node
3 days after ascending node on 10 February 2029 at 03:07 in ♑ Capricorn. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 24 February 2029 at 16:44 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
3 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
5 days since the previous standstill on 8 February 2029 at 06:14 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.127°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.019° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 February 2029 at 22:00 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.
