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 1 day young Moon is in ♈ Aries.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 18 March 2045 at 17:15 UTC.
Moon phases for next 7 days
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Wednesday Wed
Thursday Thu
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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 ∠8° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1826" and ∠1927".
Pink Moon after 13 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2045 after 13 days on 1 April 2045 at 18:43.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 26 March 2045 at 00:56
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 1 April 2045 at 18:43
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 9 April 2045 at 07:52
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 17 April 2045 at 07:27
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 559 / 1512
At 17:15 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 559 of Meeus index or 1512 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.59 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 12 minutes. It is 3 hours and 12 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 28 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 35 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠238.6°
The true anomaly is ∠238.6°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠274.3°.
Moon after apogee
5 days after point of apogee on 13 March 2045 at 18:23 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 29 March 2045 at 17:25 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 392 473 km
The Moon is 392 473 km (243 871 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 846 km (227 326 mi).
Moon after ascending node
2 days after ascending node on 16 March 2045 at 12:51 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 29 March 2045 at 22:04 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
2 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 10 March 2045 at 22:47 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.164°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.089° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 March 2045 at 07:00 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.
