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Moon phase on 6 March 2038 Saturday is New Moon, less than 1 day young Moon is in Pisces.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinNew 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 5 March 2038 at 23:15 UTC.
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Moon rises at sunrise and sets at sunset. It's part facing the Earth is completely in shadow.
Moon is passing about ∠22° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1777" and ∠1934".
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2038 after 14 days on 21 March 2038 at 02:09.
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.
At 23:15 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 472 of Meeus index or 1425 from Brown series.
29 days, 17 hours and 28 minutes is the length of new lunation 472. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2038. It is 51 minutes longer than next lunation 473 length.
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 44 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 19 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠149.9°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠175.3°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
13 days after point of perigee on 21 February 2038 at 08:05 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 2 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 9 March 2038 at 00:39 in ♈ Aries.
Moon is 403 302 km (250 600 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 2 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 184 km (252 391 mi).
5 days after its descending node on 1 March 2038 at 08:52 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 9 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 15 March 2038 at 23:29 in ♋ Cancer.
17 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
5 days after previous South standstill on 28 February 2038 at 20:34 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-22.311°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠22.441° in the next northern standstill on 15 March 2038 at 13:46 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun on this date and this alignment forms Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.