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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 19 November 2044 at 14:58 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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♐ Sagittarius later.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1808" and ∠1942".
Cold Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2044 after 15 days on 4 December 2044 at 23:34.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 27 November 2044 at 19:36
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 4 December 2044 at 23:34
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 11 December 2044 at 14:52
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 19 December 2044 at 08:53
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 555 / 1508
At 14:58 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 555 of Meeus index or 1508 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.75 days
29 days, 17 hours and 55 minutes is the length of new lunation 555. It is 1 hour and 37 minutes shorter than next lunation 556 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 11 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 52 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠126.5°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠126.5°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠156.9°. 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 before apogee
11 days after point of perigee on 8 November 2044 at 06:14 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 4 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 24 November 2044 at 06:42 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 396 415 km
Moon is 396 415 km (246 321 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 4 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 513 km (251 974 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after its descending node on 13 November 2044 at 12:05 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 8 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 27 November 2044 at 20:02 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
18 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days after previous North standstill on 8 November 2044 at 11:13 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.171°. Next 2 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.089° in the next southern standstill on 21 November 2044 at 22:50 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.