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 23 March 2031 at 03:49 UTC.
Moon phases for next 7 days
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Sunday Sun
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 ∠7° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1866" and ∠1925".
Pink Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2031 after 15 days on 7 April 2031 at 17:21.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 31 March 2031 at 00:32
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 7 April 2031 at 17:21
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 14 April 2031 at 12:58
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 21 April 2031 at 16:57
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 386 / 1339
At 03:49 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 386 of Meeus index or 1339 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.55 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 8 minutes. It is 1 hour and 12 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 24 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 39 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠70.3°
The true anomaly is ∠70.3°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠106.4°.
Moon after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 17 March 2031 at 18:58 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 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 30 March 2031 at 15:24 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 384 196 km
The Moon is 384 196 km (238 728 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 227 km (251 175 mi).
Moon before descending node
9 days after ascending node on 14 March 2031 at 11:38 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 27 March 2031 at 14:22 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
9 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
7 days since the previous standstill on 15 March 2031 at 19:06 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.353°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.242° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 March 2031 at 04:58 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.
