Waxing
Crescent ♏ 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 less than 1 day young Moon is in ♎ Libra.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 14 October 2004 at 02:48 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 in ♎ Libra
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♏ Scorpio later.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1903" and ∠1924".
Hunter Moon after 13 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2004 after 13 days on 28 October 2004 at 03:07.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 20 October 2004 at 21:59
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 28 October 2004 at 03:07
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 5 November 2004 at 05:53
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 12 November 2004 at 14:27
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 59 / 1012
At 02:48 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 59 of Meeus index or 1012 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.49 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 39 minutes. It is 37 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 5 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 4 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠302.8°
The true anomaly is ∠302.8°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠327.5°.
Moon before apogee
8 days after point of apogee on 5 October 2004 at 22:10 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 18 October 2004 at 00:03 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 376 628 km
The Moon is 376 628 km (234 026 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 758 km (228 514 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♎ Libra at 21:47 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 13 days later on 27 October 2004 at 21:41 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 5 October 2004 at 17:37 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.020°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.048° at the point of next southern standstill on 19 October 2004 at 08:00 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.
