Waxing
Crescent ♓ Pisces
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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 26 February 2055 at 12:39 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 ♓ Pisces
Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1938".
Worm Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2055 after 14 days on 13 March 2055 at 08:57.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 6 March 2055 at 14:48
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 13 March 2055 at 08:57
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 20 March 2055 at 03:18
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 28 March 2055 at 07:01
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 682 / 1635
At 12:39 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 682 of Meeus index or 1635 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.77 days
29 days, 18 hours and 22 minutes is the length of new lunation 682. It is 2 hours and 6 minutes longer than next lunation 683 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 38 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 25 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠170.8°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠170.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠194.9°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before apogee
13 days after point of perigee on 12 February 2055 at 17:59 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next apogee on 27 February 2055 at 13:56 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 405 135 km
Moon is 405 135 km (251 739 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next day until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 514 km (252 596 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after its descending node on 24 February 2055 at 23:02 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 12 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 11 March 2055 at 03:26 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
14 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
4 days after previous South standstill on 21 February 2055 at 16:20 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-19.715°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠19.771° in the next northern standstill on 8 March 2055 at 09:08 in ♋ Cancer.
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.