Waxing
Crescent ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
New Moon
New Moon is the lunar phase on . Surface of the Moon disc is not illuminated. The 1 day young Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 12 April 2002 at 19:21 UTC.
Moon phases for next 7 days
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Moon phase and lunation details
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises at sunrise and sets at sunset. It's part facing the Earth is completely in shadow.
Moon is entering ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1785" and ∠1913".
Pink Moon after 13 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2002 after 13 days on 27 April 2002 at 03:00.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 20 April 2002 at 12:48
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 27 April 2002 at 03:00
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 4 May 2002 at 07:16
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 12 May 2002 at 10:45
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.
New lunation 28 / 981
At 19:21 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 28 of Meeus index or 981 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.64 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 24 minutes. It is 2 hours and 23 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the 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 2 hours and 40 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 23 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠204.7°
The true anomaly is ∠204.7°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠233.6°.
Moon after apogee
3 days after point of apogee on 10 April 2002 at 05:32 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 25 April 2002 at 16:25 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 401 507 km
The Moon is 401 507 km (249 485 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 088 km (223 748 mi).
Moon before ascending node
10 days after descending node on 2 April 2002 at 18:20 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 17 April 2002 at 09:15 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
23 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 4 April 2002 at 08:23 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.771°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.908° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 April 2002 at 02:11 in ♋ Cancer.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
