New Moon is the lunar phase on
21 March 2023, Tuesday. 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 21 March 2023 at 17:23 UTC. Previous date |
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Moon phase and lunation details
Moon rises at sunrise and sets at sunset. It's part facing the Earth is completely in shadow. Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of
♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♈ Aries later. Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent
angular diameters are ∠1938" and ∠1926". Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2023 after 15 days on 6 April 2023 at 04:35.Moonrise and moonset
Moon in ♓ Pisces
Apparent angular diameter
Pink Moon after 15 days
Upcoming main Moon phases
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 287 / 1240
At 17:23 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 287 of Meeus index or 1240 from Brown series.
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Synodic month length 29.45 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 49 minutes. It is 52 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee [∠180°].
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 55 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 14 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on 21 March 2023 Tuesday 12:00 UTC
The true anomaly is ∠34.1°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠59.2°. 1 day after point of perigee on 19 March 2023 at 15:16 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on
31 March 2023 at 11:18 in ♌ Leo. Previous perigeeNext apogee The Moon is 369 885 km [229 836 mi] away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 921 km [251 606 mi].True anomaly ∠34.1°
Moon after perigee
Distance to Moon 369 885 km
Moon before ascending node
10 days after descending node on 11 March 2023 at 08:53 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 24 March 2023 at 02:08 in ♉ Taurus.
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Draconic month
24 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
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Moon after southern standstill
5 days since the previous standstill on 15 March 2023 at 21:43 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.831°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.898° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 March 2023 at 21:29 in ♊ Gemini.
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Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
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