New
Moon ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
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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 9 November 2007 at 23:03 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 ∠12° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1937".
Beaver Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2007 after 15 days on 24 November 2007 at 14:30.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 17 November 2007 at 22:32
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 24 November 2007 at 14:30
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 1 December 2007 at 12:44
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 9 December 2007 at 17:40
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 97 / 1050
At 23:03 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 97 of Meeus index or 1050 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.78 days
29 days, 18 hours and 37 minutes is the length of new lunation 97. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2007. It is 40 minutes longer than next lunation 98 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 53 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 10 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠183.8°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠183.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠209.6°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon in apogee
Moon is reaching point of apogee on this date at 12:31, this is 14 days after last perigee on 26 October 2007 at 11:51 in ♉ Taurus. Lunar orbit is starting to get closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth for 14 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next perigee on 24 November 2007 at 00:12 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 406 671 km
This apogee Moon is 406 671 km (252 694 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest apogee of 2007. It is 1 263 km farther than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 38 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
5 days after its descending node on 3 November 2007 at 22:09 in ♌ Leo, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 9 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 18 November 2007 at 12:46 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
18 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
10 days after previous North standstill on 29 October 2007 at 18:09 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.117°. Next 3 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.006° in the next southern standstill on 13 November 2007 at 04:37 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun on this date and this alignment forms Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.