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 ♈ Aries.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 12 April 2021 at 02:31 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 ♈ Aries
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♉ Taurus later.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1775" and ∠1914".
Pink Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2021 after 14 days on 27 April 2021 at 03:31.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 20 April 2021 at 06:59
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 27 April 2021 at 03:31
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 3 May 2021 at 19:50
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 11 May 2021 at 19:00
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 263 / 1216
At 02:31 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 263 of Meeus index or 1216 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.69 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 29 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2021. It is 36 minutes longer 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 45 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 18 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠154.8°
The true anomaly is ∠154.8°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠178.9°.
Moon before perigee
13 days after point of perigee on 30 March 2021 at 06:12 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 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 14 April 2021 at 17:47 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 403 732 km
The Moon is 403 732 km (250 867 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 120 km (252 351 mi).
Moon before ascending node
10 days after descending node on 2 April 2021 at 02:41 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 16 April 2021 at 05:53 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
23 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 4 April 2021 at 02:08 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.412°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.532° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 April 2021 at 16:02 in ♋ Cancer.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
