New
Moon ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
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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 ♏ Scorpio.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 30 October 2016 at 17:38 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 ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1933".
Beaver Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2016 after 15 days on 14 November 2016 at 13:52.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 7 November 2016 at 19:51
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 14 November 2016 at 13:52
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 21 November 2016 at 08:33
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 29 November 2016 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.
New lunation 208 / 1161
At 17:38 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 208 of Meeus index or 1161 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.78 days
29 days, 18 hours and 40 minutes is the length of new lunation 208. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2016. It is 5 minutes longer than next lunation 209 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 56 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 7 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠170.6°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠170.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠194.9°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before apogee
13 days after point of perigee on 16 October 2016 at 23:36 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next apogee on 31 October 2016 at 19:29 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 404 934 km
Moon is 404 934 km (251 614 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next day until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 660 km (252 687 mi).
Moon after ascending node
4 days after its ascending node on 26 October 2016 at 01:44 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 10 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 9 November 2016 at 15:57 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
4 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
9 days after previous North standstill on 20 October 2016 at 23:38 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠18.619°. Next 5 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-18.737° in the next southern standstill on 4 November 2016 at 13:04 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun on this date and this alignment forms Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.