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 less than 1 day young Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 11 February 2070 at 02:52 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 ∠1872" and ∠1944".
Snow Moon after 13 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2070 after 13 days on 25 February 2070 at 02:31.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 18 February 2070 at 02:33
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 25 February 2070 at 02:31
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 5 March 2070 at 02:11
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 12 March 2070 at 15:52
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 867 / 1820
At 02:52 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 867 of Meeus index or 1820 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.54 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 1 minute. It is 2 hours and 22 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 16 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 47 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠282°
The true anomaly is ∠282°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠312°.
Moon before apogee
7 days after point of apogee on 4 February 2070 at 01:19 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 17 February 2070 at 15:55 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 382 874 km
The Moon is 382 874 km (237 907 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 370 239 km (230 056 mi).
Moon before descending node
9 days after ascending node on 1 February 2070 at 20:26 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 15 February 2070 at 19:12 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
9 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
5 days since the previous standstill on 6 February 2070 at 10:23 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.101°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.990° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 February 2070 at 18:41 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.
