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

New Moon in Taurus

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

* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 21 April 2088 at 10:25 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 ♉ Taurus

Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.

Flower Moon after 14 days

Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2088 after 14 days on 5 May 2088 at 16:25.

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 ∠1945" and ∠1908".

New lunation 1092 / 2045

At 10:25 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 1092 of Meeus index or lunation 2045 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.35 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 24 minutes. It is 1 hour and 19 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 4 hours and 20 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 49 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠331.3°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠331.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠348.3°.

Moon before perigee

10 days since point of apogee on 11 April 2088 at 05:21 in ♐ Sagittarius 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 23 April 2088 at 04:05 in ♉ Taurus.

Distance to Moon 368 543 km

The Moon is 368 543 km (229 002 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 490 km (224 619 mi).

Moon in descending node

Moon is in descending node in ♈ Aries at 17:47 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 4 May 2088 at 21:55 in ♏ Scorpio.

Moon before northern standstill

10 days since the last southern standstill on 11 April 2088 at 07:55 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.390° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.385° at the point of next northern standstill on 24 April 2088 at 17:34 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio 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