New Moon
New MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

New Moon in Scorpio

New Moon on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 0%. Lunar cycle is 1 day young.

* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 28 October 2008 at 23:14 UTC.

Moonrise and moonset

Moon rises at sunrise and sets at sunset. It's part facing the Earth is completely in shadow.

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon is entering ♏ Scorpio

Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.

Beaver Moon after 15 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2008 after 15 days on 13 November 2008 at 06:17.

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.

Apparent angular diameter

Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1806" and ∠1932".

New lunation 109 / 1062

At 23:14 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 109 of Meeus index or lunation 1062 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.74 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 41 minutes. It is 1 hour and 47 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).

Lunation length longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 57 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 6 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠133.4°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠133.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠161.9°.

Moon before apogee

11 days since point of perigee on 17 October 2008 at 06:06 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 2 November 2008 at 04:55 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Distance to Moon 396 781 km

The Moon is 396 781 km (246 548 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 723 km (252 105 mi).

Moon after descending node

5 days after descending node on 22 October 2008 at 18:00 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 6 November 2008 at 03:34 in ♒ Aquarius.

Moon before southern standstill

9 days since the last northern standstill on 19 October 2008 at 00:21 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.270° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.155° at the point of next southern standstill on 1 November 2008 at 20:56 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

18 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy

The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov