New Moon
New MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

New Moon in Pisces

New Moon on . The illuminated surface of the Moon is 0%. Lunar cycle is 1 day young.

* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 14 February 2048 at 00:31 UTC.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises at sunrise and sets at sunset. It's part facing the Earth is completely in shadow.

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon is entering ♓ Pisces

Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.

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.

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.

Apparent angular diameter

Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1870" and ∠1943".

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 lunation 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 increase with the lunar orbit 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 details for

True anomaly ∠64.6°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠64.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠100.4°.

Moon after perigee

5 days since 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 positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 24 February 2048 at 12:13 in ♋ Cancer.

Moon after southern standstill

5 days since the last southern 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.

Draconic month

3 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy

The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov