New
Moon* ♈ Aries
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 ♈ Aries.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 6 April 2008 at 03:55 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 ♈ Aries
Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1933" and ∠1917".
Pink Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2008 after 14 days on 20 April 2008 at 10:25.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 6 April 2008 at 03:55
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 12 April 2008 at 18:32
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 20 April 2008 at 10:25
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 28 April 2008 at 14:12
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 101 / 1054
At 17:14 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 101 of Meeus index or 1054 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.45 days
29 days, 10 hours and 41 minutes is the length of new lunation 101. It is 2 hours and 18 minutes longer than next lunation 102 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 3 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 6 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠310.8°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠310.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠332.7°. 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 before perigee
9 days after point of apogee on 26 March 2008 at 20:13 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 2 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 7 April 2008 at 19:28 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 370 812 km
Moon is 370 812 km (230 412 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 2 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 361 083 km (224 367 mi).
Moon after ascending node
2 days after its ascending node on 2 April 2008 at 15:18 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 9 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 15 April 2008 at 05:48 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
2 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
7 days after previous South standstill on 28 March 2008 at 16:00 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-27.898°. Next 5 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠27.812° in the next northern standstill on 10 April 2008 at 17:42 in ♊ Gemini.
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.