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

New Moon in Sagittarius

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 27 November 2008 at 16:55 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 ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

Cold Moon after 15 days

Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2008 after 15 days on 12 December 2008 at 16:37.

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 ∠1775" and ∠1945".

New lunation 110 / 1063

At 16:55 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 110 of Meeus index or lunation 1063 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.81 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 28 minutes. It is 5 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit 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 6 hours and 44 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 19 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠161.9°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠161.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠186.6°.

Moon before apogee

13 days since point of perigee on 14 November 2008 at 09:59 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 29 November 2008 at 16:55 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Distance to Moon 403 794 km

The Moon is 403 794 km (250 906 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 480 km (252 575 mi).

Moon before ascending node

8 days after descending node on 18 November 2008 at 18:37 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 3 December 2008 at 04:47 in ♒ Aquarius.

Moon before southern standstill

12 days since the last northern standstill on 15 November 2008 at 08:19 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.088° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-27.025° at the point of next southern standstill on 29 November 2008 at 02:41 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

21 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