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 9 April 2043 at 19:06 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 ∠1960" and ∠1915".
Pink Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2043 after 14 days on 24 April 2043 at 07:23.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 16 April 2043 at 10:09
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 24 April 2043 at 07:23
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 2 May 2043 at 08:59
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 9 May 2043 at 03:21
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 535 / 1488
At 19:06 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 535 of Meeus index or 1488 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.34 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 15 minutes. It is 1 hour and 1 minute longer 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 4 hours and 29 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 40 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠345.1°
The true anomaly is ∠345.1°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠0.5°.
Moon before apogee
11 days after point of apogee on 29 March 2043 at 05:28 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 April 2043 at 16:14 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 365 636 km
The Moon is 365 636 km (227 196 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 473 km (222 745 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♈ Aries at 01:17 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 12 days later on 22 April 2043 at 04:12 in ♎ Libra.
New draconic month
At 01:17 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 2043 at 21:04 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.660°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.638° at the point of next northern standstill on 14 April 2043 at 15:23 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.
