Waxing
Crescent ♉ Taurus
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 ♉ Taurus.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 3 May 2011 at 06:51 UTC.
Moon phases for next 7 days
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Sunday Sun
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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 ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing about ∠15° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1791" and ∠1903".
Flower Moon after 13 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2011 after 13 days on 17 May 2011 at 11:09.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 10 May 2011 at 20:33
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 17 May 2011 at 11:09
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 24 May 2011 at 18:52
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 1 June 2011 at 21:03
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 140 / 1093
At 06:51 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 140 of Meeus index or 1093 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.59 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 12 minutes. It is 2 hours and 21 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 1 hour and 28 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 35 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠216.7°
The true anomaly is ∠216.7°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠248.4°.
Moon after apogee
3 days after point of apogee on 29 April 2011 at 18:02 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 May 2011 at 11:18 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 400 110 km
The Moon is 400 110 km (248 617 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 133 km (225 019 mi).
Moon before descending node
11 days after ascending node on 22 April 2011 at 01:05 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 6 May 2011 at 14:54 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
11 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
11 days since the previous standstill on 21 April 2011 at 13:40 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.498°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.421° at the point of next northern standstill on 6 May 2011 at 03:54 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.
