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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 ♎ Libra.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 23 October 2014 at 21:57 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 ♎ Libra
Moon is passing about ∠25° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1818" and ∠1929".
Beaver Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2014 after 14 days on 6 November 2014 at 22:23.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 31 October 2014 at 02:48
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 6 November 2014 at 22:23
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 14 November 2014 at 15:16
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 22 November 2014 at 12:32
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 183 / 1136
At 21:57 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 183 of Meeus index or 1136 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.61 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 36 minutes. It is 1 hour and 32 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 52 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 11 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠252.3°
The true anomaly is ∠252.3°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠289.3°.
Moon after apogee
5 days after point of apogee on 18 October 2014 at 06:05 in ♌ Leo. 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 3 November 2014 at 00:21 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 394 236 km
The Moon is 394 236 km (244 967 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 871 km (228 584 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♎ Libra at 00:46 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 12 days later on 5 November 2014 at 03:13 in ♈ Aries.
New draconic month
At 00:46 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before southern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 13 October 2014 at 13:34 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.517°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.539° at the point of next southern standstill on 28 October 2014 at 01:03 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.
