New
Moon ♏ Scorpio
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 ♏ Scorpio.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 4 November 2002 at 20:34 UTC.
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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 in ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1968" and ∠1935".
Beaver Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2002 after 15 days on 20 November 2002 at 01:34.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 11 November 2002 at 20:52
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 20 November 2002 at 01:34
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 27 November 2002 at 15:46
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 4 December 2002 at 07:34
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.
New lunation 35 / 988
At 20:34 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 35 of Meeus index or 988 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.46 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 1 minute. It is 1 hour and 48 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 44 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 25 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠14°
The true anomaly is ∠14°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠32.1°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 00:50. It is 14 days after previous apogee on 20 October 2002 at 04:41 in ♈ Aries. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 11 days, until point of next apogee on 16 November 2002 at 11:30 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 358 154 km
This perigee Moon is 358 154 km (222 547 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 354 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 12 202 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
10 days after ascending node on 24 October 2002 at 18:18 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 6 November 2002 at 15:22 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
10 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 27 October 2002 at 06:34 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.735°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.781° at the point of next southern standstill on 8 November 2002 at 20:35 in ♑ Capricorn.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
