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

New Moon in Scorpio

New Moon on . The 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 15 November 2096 at 00:36 UTC.

Moonrise and moonset

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

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♏ Scorpio

Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♐ Sagittarius later.

Beaver Moon after 14 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2096 after 14 days on 29 November 2096 at 21:34.

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 ∠1768" and ∠1941".

New lunation 1198 / 2151

At 00:35 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 1198 of Meeus index or lunation 2151 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.81 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 30 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2096. It is 36 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 6 hours and 46 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 17 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠169.7°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠169.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠194.2°.

Moon before apogee

14 days since point of perigee on 1 November 2096 at 07:33 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 day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 16 November 2096 at 05:04 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Distance to Moon 405 390 km

The Moon is 405 390 km (251 898 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 511 km (252 594 mi).

Moon after descending node

1 day after descending node on 14 November 2096 at 20:36 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 28 November 2096 at 18:48 in ♉ Taurus.

Moon before southern standstill

11 days since the last northern standstill on 4 November 2096 at 10:38 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.978° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.983° at the point of next southern standstill on 18 November 2096 at 19:29 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus 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