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 less than 1 day young Moon is in ♈ Aries.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 17 April 2007 at 11:36 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 ♈ Aries
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♉ Taurus later.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1911".
Flower Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2007 after 14 days on 2 May 2007 at 10:09.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 24 April 2007 at 06:36
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 2 May 2007 at 10:09
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 10 May 2007 at 04:27
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 16 May 2007 at 19:27
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 90 / 1043
At 11:36 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 90 of Meeus index or 1043 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.33 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 51 minutes. It is 5 minutes longer 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 4 hours and 53 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 16 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠4°
The true anomaly is ∠4°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠19.8°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 05:55. It is 13 days after previous apogee on 3 April 2007 at 08:38 in ♎ Libra. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 12 days, until point of next apogee on 30 April 2007 at 10:57 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 357 138 km
This perigee Moon is 357 138 km (221 915 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 370 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 13 218 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
2 days after ascending node on 14 April 2007 at 17:34 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 27 April 2007 at 15:27 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
2 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 8 April 2007 at 23:01 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.510°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.446° at the point of next northern standstill on 21 April 2007 at 13:36 in ♊ Gemini.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
