Waxing
Crescent ♈ Aries
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 1 day young Moon is in ♈ Aries.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 3 April 2011 at 14:32 UTC.
Moon phases for next 7 days
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Wednesday Wed
Thursday Thu
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Sunday Sun
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 ∠12° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1919".
Pink Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2011 after 14 days on 18 April 2011 at 02:44.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 11 April 2011 at 12:05
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 18 April 2011 at 02:44
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 25 April 2011 at 02:47
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 3 May 2011 at 06:51
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 139 / 1092
At 14:32 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 139 of Meeus index or 1092 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.68 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 18 minutes. It is 2 hours and 6 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 34 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 29 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠190.9°
The true anomaly is ∠190.9°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠216.7°.
Moon after apogee
1 day after point of apogee on 2 April 2011 at 09:00 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 17 April 2011 at 05:59 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 405 110 km
The Moon is 405 110 km (251 724 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 13 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 088 km (222 506 mi).
Moon before descending node
8 days after ascending node on 25 March 2011 at 21:09 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 9 April 2011 at 12:48 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
8 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 25 March 2011 at 05:02 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.716°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.569° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 April 2011 at 22:55 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.
