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 1 day young Moon is in ♈ Aries.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 8 April 2024 at 18:21 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 passing about ∠15° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1964" and ∠1916".
Pink Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2024 after 15 days on 23 April 2024 at 23:49.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 15 April 2024 at 19:13
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 23 April 2024 at 23:49
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 1 May 2024 at 11:27
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 8 May 2024 at 03:22
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 300 / 1253
At 18:21 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 300 of Meeus index or 1253 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.38 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 1 minute. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2024. It is 15 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 3 hours and 43 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 26 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠17.2°
The true anomaly is ∠17.2°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠36°.
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 7 April 2024 at 17:53 in ♓ Pisces. 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 20 April 2024 at 02:09 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 364 957 km
The Moon is 364 957 km (226 774 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 625 km (252 044 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♈ Aries at 12:20 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 22 April 2024 at 10:45 in ♎ Libra.
New draconic month
At 12:20 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
7 days since the previous standstill on 1 April 2024 at 08:58 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.559°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.552° at the point of next northern standstill on 13 April 2024 at 22:36 in ♊ Gemini.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
