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 ♏ Scorpio.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 28 October 2008 at 23:14 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 ♏ 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 ∠1791" and ∠1932".
Beaver Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2008 after 14 days on 13 November 2008 at 06:17.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 6 November 2008 at 04:04
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 13 November 2008 at 06:17
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 19 November 2008 at 21:31
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 27 November 2008 at 16:55
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 109 / 1062
At 23:14 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 109 of Meeus index or 1062 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.74 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 41 minutes. It is 1 hour and 47 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 57 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 6 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠133.4°
The true anomaly is ∠133.4°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠161.9°.
Moon before perigee
12 days after point of perigee on 17 October 2008 at 06:06 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 2 November 2008 at 04:55 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 400 172 km
The Moon is 400 172 km (248 655 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 723 km (252 105 mi).
Moon after descending node
6 days after descending node on 22 October 2008 at 18:00 in ♌ Leo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 6 November 2008 at 03:34 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
19 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
10 days since the previous standstill on 19 October 2008 at 00:21 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.270°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.155° at the point of next southern standstill on 1 November 2008 at 20:56 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
