New
Moon ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
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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 4 November 2040 at 18:56 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 ∠9° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1878" and ∠1935".
Beaver Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2040 after 14 days on 18 November 2040 at 19:06.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 11 November 2040 at 15:23
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 18 November 2040 at 19:06
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 26 November 2040 at 21:07
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 4 December 2040 at 07:33
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 505 / 1458
At 18:56 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 505 of Meeus index or 1458 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.53 days
29 days, 12 hours and 37 minutes is the length of new lunation 505. It is 1 hour and 2 minutes longer than next lunation 506 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 7 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 6 hours and 2 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠297°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠297°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠323.5°. 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 before perigee
7 days after point of apogee on 27 October 2040 at 22:34 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 4 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 9 November 2040 at 06:17 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 381 755 km
Moon is 381 755 km (237 212 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 4 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 368 784 km (229 152 mi).
Moon before descending node
13 days after its ascending node on 22 October 2040 at 06:09 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 5 November 2040 at 15:13 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
13 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
9 days after previous North standstill on 25 October 2040 at 18:35 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠26.789°. Next 4 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-26.814° in the next southern standstill on 8 November 2040 at 17:47 in ♑ Capricorn.
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.