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 ♓ Pisces.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 20 February 2042 at 07:39 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 passing about ∠5° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1964" and ∠1940".
Worm Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2042 after 14 days on 6 March 2042 at 20:10.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 26 February 2042 at 23:29
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 6 March 2042 at 20:10
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 14 March 2042 at 23:21
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 21 March 2042 at 17:23
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 521 / 1474
At 07:39 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 521 of Meeus index or 1474 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.41 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 44 minutes. It is 48 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 shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 9 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠344.2°
The true anomaly is ∠344.2°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠359.8°.
Moon before apogee
11 days after point of apogee on 8 February 2042 at 21:14 in ♍ Virgo. 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 February 2042 at 05:54 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 364 915 km
The Moon is 364 915 km (226 748 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 434 km (222 721 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days after descending node on 11 February 2042 at 04:28 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 24 February 2042 at 02:02 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
23 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
4 days since the previous standstill on 16 February 2042 at 09:22 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.949°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.031° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 February 2042 at 23:35 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.
