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 ♒ Aquarius.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 18 February 2053 at 16:31 UTC.
Moon phases for next 7 days
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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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1822" and ∠1941".
Worm Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2053 after 14 days on 4 March 2053 at 17:09.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 25 February 2053 at 22:09
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 4 March 2053 at 17:09
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 12 March 2053 at 10:21
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 20 March 2053 at 07:11
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 657 / 1610
At 16:31 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 657 of Meeus index or 1610 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.61 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 40 minutes. It is 3 hours and 3 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 56 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 7 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠251.9°
The true anomaly is ∠251.9°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠288°.
Moon after apogee
5 days after point of apogee on 13 February 2053 at 01:22 in ♐ Sagittarius. 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 28 February 2053 at 20:20 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 393 324 km
The Moon is 393 324 km (244 400 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 800 km (228 540 mi).
Moon before descending node
12 days after ascending node on 6 February 2053 at 03:39 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 20 February 2053 at 15:44 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
12 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
4 days since the previous standstill on 13 February 2053 at 20:10 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.230°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.174° at the point of next northern standstill on 27 February 2053 at 13:41 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.
