Waxing
Crescent ♏ Scorpio
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 25 October 2022 at 10:49 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 is entering ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1890" and ∠1930".
Beaver Moon after 13 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2022 after 13 days on 8 November 2022 at 11:02.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 1 November 2022 at 06:37
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 8 November 2022 at 11:02
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 16 November 2022 at 13:27
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 23 November 2022 at 22:57
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 282 / 1235
At 10:49 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 282 of Meeus index or 1235 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.51 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 9 minutes. It is 49 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 36 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 34 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠299.9°
The true anomaly is ∠299.9°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠325.5°.
Moon before apogee
8 days after point of apogee on 17 October 2022 at 10:21 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 29 October 2022 at 14:48 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 379 154 km
The Moon is 379 154 km (235 595 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 289 km (228 844 mi).
Moon before descending node
13 days after ascending node on 11 October 2022 at 21:49 in ♉ Taurus. 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 26 October 2022 at 06:30 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, 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 16 October 2022 at 06:12 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.473°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.500° at the point of next southern standstill on 30 October 2022 at 01:04 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.
