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 17 November 2066 at 13:06 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 in ♏ Scorpio

Moon is passing about ∠25° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.

Cold Moon after 14 days

Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2066 after 14 days on 1 December 2066 at 19:16.

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 ∠1937" and ∠1941".

New lunation 827 / 1780

At 13:06 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 827 of Meeus index or lunation 1780 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.47 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 12 minutes. It is 13 minutes longer 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 shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 32 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 37 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠328.7°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠328.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠346.7°.

Moon before perigee

9 days since point of apogee on 7 November 2066 at 14:36 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 November 2066 at 10:44 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Distance to Moon 370 054 km

The Moon is 370 054 km (229 941 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 077 km (224 984 mi).

Moon before ascending node

11 days after descending node on 6 November 2066 at 05:30 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 19 November 2066 at 21:21 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Moon before southern standstill

12 days since the last northern standstill on 5 November 2066 at 05:38 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.974° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-23.944° at the point of next southern standstill on 19 November 2066 at 02:52 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

24 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius 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