Waxing
Crescent ♈ Aries
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 ♈ Aries.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 29 March 2082 at 09:05 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 ♈ Aries
Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1921".
Pink Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2082 after 14 days on 13 April 2082 at 01:45.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 6 April 2082 at 09:02
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 13 April 2082 at 01:45
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 19 April 2082 at 21:46
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 28 April 2082 at 02:02
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 1017 / 1970
At 09:05 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 1017 of Meeus index or 1970 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.71 days
29 days, 16 hours and 57 minutes is the length of new lunation 1017. It is 2 hours and 12 minutes longer than next lunation 1018 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 13 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 50 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠179.1°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠179.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠203.1°. 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 in apogee
Moon is reaching point of apogee on this date at 11:30, this is 14 days after last perigee on 15 March 2082 at 04:17 in ♎ Libra. Lunar orbit is starting to get closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth for 14 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next perigee on 12 April 2082 at 15:53 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 406 577 km
This apogee Moon is 406 577 km (252 635 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest apogee of 2082. It is 1 169 km farther than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 132 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
2 days after its ascending node on 26 March 2082 at 13:54 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 11 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 9 April 2082 at 20:43 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
2 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
8 days after previous South standstill on 20 March 2082 at 23:38 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.248°. Next 6 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠28.159° in the next northern standstill on 4 April 2082 at 18:02 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.