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 less than 1 day young Moon is in ♈ Aries.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 2 April 2049 at 11:39 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 ♈ Aries
Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1878" and ∠1919".
Pink Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2049 after 15 days on 18 April 2049 at 01:04.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 10 April 2049 at 07:27
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 18 April 2049 at 01:04
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 24 April 2049 at 21:11
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 2 May 2049 at 00:11
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 609 / 1562
At 11:39 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 609 of Meeus index or 1562 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.52 days
29 days, 12 hours and 32 minutes is the length of new lunation 609. It is 1 hour and 17 minutes shorter than next lunation 610 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 12 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 57 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠67°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠67°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠102.4°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon after perigee
4 days after point of perigee on 28 March 2049 at 13:03 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 10 April 2049 at 03:32 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 381 584 km
Moon is 381 584 km (237 105 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 7 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 203 km (251 160 mi).
Moon before descending node
8 days after its ascending node on 24 March 2049 at 20:47 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 4 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 6 April 2049 at 22:31 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
8 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
8 days after previous South standstill on 25 March 2049 at 08:26 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-22.314°. Next 5 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠22.212° in the next northern standstill on 7 April 2049 at 13:42 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.