New Moon
New MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

New Moon in Aries

New Moon on . The illuminated surface of the Moon is 0%. Lunar cycle is 1 day young.

* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 14 April 2010 at 12:29 UTC.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises at sunrise and sets at sunset. It's part facing the Earth is completely in shadow.

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♈ Aries

Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.

Pink Moon after 14 days

Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2010 after 14 days on 28 April 2010 at 12:18.

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.

Apparent angular diameter

Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1822" and ∠1913".

New lunation 127 / 1080

At 12:29 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 127 of Meeus index or lunation 1080 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.52 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 35 minutes. It is 2 hours and 25 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit 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 9 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠247.4°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠247.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠282.4°.

Moon after apogee

5 days since point of apogee on 9 April 2010 at 02:45 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 24 April 2010 at 20:59 in ♍ Virgo.

Distance to Moon 393 452 km

The Moon is 393 452 km (244 480 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 142 km (228 131 mi).

Moon before descending node

8 days after ascending node on 6 April 2010 at 09:45 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 20 April 2010 at 13:38 in ♋ Cancer.

Moon before northern standstill

10 days since the last southern standstill on 4 April 2010 at 05:23 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.311° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.182° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 April 2010 at 17:15 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

8 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy

The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov