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 20 March 2034 at 10:14 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 is entering ♈ Aries
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1955" and ∠1926".
Pink Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2034 after 14 days on 3 April 2034 at 19:19.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 27 March 2034 at 01:18
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 3 April 2034 at 19:19
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 11 April 2034 at 22:45
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 18 April 2034 at 19:26
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 423 / 1376
At 10:14 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 423 of Meeus index or 1376 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.38 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 11 minutes. It is 1 hour and 24 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 33 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 36 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠337.6°
The true anomaly is ∠337.6°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠353.9°.
Moon before apogee
10 days after point of apogee on 9 March 2034 at 16:05 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 21 March 2034 at 18:12 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 366 720 km
The Moon is 366 720 km (227 869 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 963 km (223 671 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♓ Pisces at 15:22 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 13 days later on 2 April 2034 at 21:12 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 13 March 2034 at 19:10 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.147°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.139° at the point of next northern standstill on 26 March 2034 at 12:34 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.
