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 2 March 2060 at 16:11 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 ∠10° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1958" and ∠1935".
Worm Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2060 after 14 days on 17 March 2060 at 03:41.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 9 March 2060 at 07:52
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 17 March 2060 at 03:41
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 25 March 2060 at 07:08
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 1 April 2060 at 01:37
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 744 / 1697
At 16:11 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 744 of Meeus index or 1697 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.39 days
29 days, 9 hours and 26 minutes is the length of new lunation 744. It is 53 minutes longer than next lunation 745 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 18 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 51 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠342.5°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠342.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠358.2°. 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 perigee
11 days after point of apogee on 20 February 2060 at 10:06 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next perigee on 3 March 2060 at 16:59 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 366 128 km
Moon is 366 128 km (227 501 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next day until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 358 816 km (222 958 mi).
Moon before ascending node
8 days after its descending node on 22 February 2060 at 12:39 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 3 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 6 March 2060 at 11:03 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
23 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
4 days after previous South standstill on 27 February 2060 at 00:51 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-27.445°. Next 8 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠27.537° in the next northern standstill on 10 March 2060 at 14:36 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.