Waxing
Crescent ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
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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 ♓ Pisces.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 15 March 2029 at 04:19 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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♈ Aries later.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1929".
Worm Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2029 after 14 days on 30 March 2029 at 02:26.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 23 March 2029 at 07:33
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 30 March 2029 at 02:26
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 5 April 2029 at 19:51
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 13 April 2029 at 21:40
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 361 / 1314
At 04:19 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 361 of Meeus index or 1314 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.72 days
29 days, 17 hours and 21 minutes is the length of new lunation 361. It is 1 hour and 19 minutes longer than next lunation 362 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 37 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 26 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠164.5°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠164.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠188.3°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before apogee
13 days after point of perigee on 1 March 2029 at 18:30 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next apogee on 16 March 2029 at 21:33 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 404 886 km
Moon is 404 886 km (251 584 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next day until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 528 km (252 605 mi).
Moon after ascending node
6 days after its ascending node on 9 March 2029 at 05:00 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 8 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 23 March 2029 at 20:28 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
6 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
8 days after previous South standstill on 7 March 2029 at 11:58 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-24.921°. Next 6 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠24.763° in the next northern standstill on 22 March 2029 at 05:25 in ♊ Gemini.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun on this date and this alignment forms Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.