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 1 day young Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 14 February 2048 at 00:31 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 ♓ Pisces
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1870" and ∠1943".
Snow Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2048 after 15 days on 29 February 2048 at 14:38.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 21 February 2048 at 19:22
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 29 February 2048 at 14:38
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 7 March 2048 at 10:45
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 14 March 2048 at 14:28
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 595 / 1548
At 00:31 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 595 of Meeus index or 1548 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.58 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 56 minutes. It is 56 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 12 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 51 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠64.6°
The true anomaly is ∠64.6°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠100.4°.
Moon after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 9 February 2048 at 09:12 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 21 February 2048 at 18:29 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 383 200 km
The Moon is 383 200 km (238 109 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 268 km (251 200 mi).
Moon after ascending node
3 days after ascending node on 10 February 2048 at 12:30 in ♑ Capricorn. 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 24 February 2048 at 12:13 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
3 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
5 days since the previous standstill on 9 February 2048 at 07:42 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.460°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.357° at the point of next northern standstill on 23 February 2048 at 04:06 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.
