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Crescent ♐ Sagittarius
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New Moon
New Moon is the lunar phase on . Surface of the Moon disc is not illuminated. The 1 day young Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 16 November 2028 at 13:18 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 ∠24° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1928" and ∠1941".
Cold Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2028 after 15 days on 2 December 2028 at 01:40.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 24 November 2028 at 00:15
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 2 December 2028 at 01:40
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 9 December 2028 at 05:39
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 16 December 2028 at 02:06
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 357 / 1310
At 13:18 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 357 of Meeus index or 1310 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.53 days
29 days, 12 hours and 48 minutes is the length of new lunation 357. It is 2 hours and 30 minutes shorter than next lunation 358 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 6 hours and 59 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠37.4°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠37.4°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠63.8°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon after perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 14 November 2028 at 05:53 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 9 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 26 November 2028 at 00:10 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 371 710 km
Moon is 371 710 km (230 970 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 9 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 732 km (251 489 mi).
Moon before ascending node
8 days after its descending node on 7 November 2028 at 12:08 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 3 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 20 November 2028 at 04:34 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
23 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
10 days after previous North standstill on 5 November 2028 at 12:08 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠25.251°. Next day the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-25.208° in the next southern standstill on 18 November 2028 at 07:22 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.