Waxing
Crescent ♈ Aries
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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 ♈ Aries.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 29 March 2044 at 09:26 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 ♈ Aries
Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1900" and ∠1921".
Pink Moon after 13 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2044 after 13 days on 12 April 2044 at 09:39.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 5 April 2044 at 03:45
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 12 April 2044 at 09:39
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 20 April 2044 at 11:48
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 27 April 2044 at 19:42
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 547 / 1500
At 09:26 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 547 of Meeus index or 1500 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.43 days
29 days, 10 hours and 16 minutes is the length of new lunation 547. It is 2 hours and 19 minutes longer than next lunation 548 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 28 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 41 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠304.8°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠304.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠328.1°. 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 perigee
8 days after point of apogee on 21 March 2044 at 01:56 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 3 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 2 April 2044 at 02:16 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 377 160 km
Moon is 377 160 km (234 356 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 3 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 367 395 km (228 289 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after its ascending node on 27 March 2044 at 23:51 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 11 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 9 April 2044 at 20:15 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
1 day after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
8 days after previous South standstill on 21 March 2044 at 10:24 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.641°. Next 5 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠28.596° in the next northern standstill on 3 April 2044 at 22:19 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.