Waxing
Crescent ♈ Aries
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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 ♓ Pisces.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 5 March 2076 at 07:24 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 ∠18° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1943" and ∠1934".
Worm Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2076 after 15 days on 20 March 2076 at 16:37.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 12 March 2076 at 12:41
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 20 March 2076 at 16:37
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 28 March 2076 at 00:26
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 3 April 2076 at 17:47
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 942 / 1895
At 07:24 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 942 of Meeus index or 1895 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.43 days
29 days, 10 hours and 23 minutes is the length of new lunation 942. It is 42 minutes shorter than next lunation 943 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 21 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 48 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠26.4°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠26.4°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠48.3°. 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
1 day after point of perigee on 3 March 2076 at 17:20 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 15 March 2076 at 16:37 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 368 920 km
Moon is 368 920 km (229 236 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 10 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 173 km (251 763 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after its descending node on 29 February 2076 at 09:23 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 7 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 13 March 2076 at 06:34 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
19 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
4 days after previous South standstill on 29 February 2076 at 23:45 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-23.705°. Next 8 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠23.806° in the next northern standstill on 14 March 2076 at 02:15 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.