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 4 April 2038 at 16:43 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 ∠25° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1918".
Pink Moon after 13 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2038 after 13 days on 19 April 2038 at 10:36.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 12 April 2038 at 18:02
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 19 April 2038 at 10:36
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 26 April 2038 at 06:15
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 4 May 2038 at 09:19
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 473 / 1426
At 16:43 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 473 of Meeus index or 1426 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.69 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 37 minutes. It is 1 hour and 32 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 53 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 10 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠175.3°
The true anomaly is ∠175.3°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠198.9°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 05:32. It is 14 days after previous perigee on 21 March 2038 at 17:16 in ♎ Libra. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 13 days, until point of next perigee on 19 April 2038 at 04:30 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 406 665 km
This apogee Moon is 406 665 km (252 690 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest apogee of 2038. It is 1 257 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 44 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
8 days after descending node on 28 March 2038 at 09:42 in ♑ Capricorn. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 12 April 2038 at 01:27 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
20 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, 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 28 March 2038 at 02:02 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.546°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.706° at the point of next northern standstill on 11 April 2038 at 21:03 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.
