Waxing
Crescent ♐ Sagittarius
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 ♏ Scorpio.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 15 November 2020 at 05:07 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 leaving the last ∠2° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♐ Sagittarius later.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1963" and ∠1940".
Beaver Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2020 after 14 days on 30 November 2020 at 09:30.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 22 November 2020 at 04:45
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 30 November 2020 at 09:30
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 8 December 2020 at 00:37
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 14 December 2020 at 16:17
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 258 / 1211
At 05:07 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 258 of Meeus index or 1211 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.46 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 9 minutes. It is 1 hour and 35 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 35 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 34 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠12.4°
The true anomaly is ∠12.4°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠30.1°.
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 14 November 2020 at 11:48 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 27 November 2020 at 00:29 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 365 057 km
The Moon is 365 057 km (226 836 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 891 km (252 209 mi).
Moon before descending node
11 days after ascending node on 4 November 2020 at 02:39 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 17 November 2020 at 00:07 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
11 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 5 November 2020 at 19:30 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.813°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.856° at the point of next southern standstill on 18 November 2020 at 11:27 in ♑ Capricorn.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
