Waxing
Crescent ♐ Sagittarius
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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 13 November 2023 at 09:27 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 ∠22° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1849" and ∠1939".
Beaver Moon after 13 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2023 after 13 days on 27 November 2023 at 09:16.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 20 November 2023 at 10:50
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 27 November 2023 at 09:16
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 5 December 2023 at 05:49
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 12 December 2023 at 23:32
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 295 / 1248
At 09:27 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 295 of Meeus index or 1248 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.59 days
29 days, 14 hours and 5 minutes is the length of new lunation 295. It is 1 hour and 40 minutes longer than next lunation 296 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 21 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 42 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠269.5°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠269.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠303.6°. 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 after apogee
6 days after point of apogee on 6 November 2023 at 21:49 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 8 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 21 November 2023 at 21:03 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 387 715 km
Moon is 387 715 km (240 915 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 8 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 369 824 km (229 798 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after its descending node on 11 November 2023 at 08:49 in ♎ Libra, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 10 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 24 November 2023 at 11:02 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
16 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days after previous North standstill on 2 November 2023 at 05:12 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.288°. Next 3 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.238° in the next southern standstill on 16 November 2023 at 14:45 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.