New
Moon* ♉ Taurus
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 ♈ Aries.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 25 April 2047 at 04:40 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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♉ Taurus later.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1907".
Flower Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2047 after 15 days on 9 May 2047 at 18:24.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 25 April 2047 at 04:40
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 3 May 2047 at 03:26
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 9 May 2047 at 18:24
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 16 May 2047 at 16:46
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 584 / 1537
At 11:44 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 584 of Meeus index or 1537 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.71 days
29 days, 16 hours and 56 minutes is the length of new lunation 584. It is 1 hour and 8 minutes longer than next lunation 585 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 12 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 51 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠161.9°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠161.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠185.7°. 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 in apogee
Moon is reaching point of apogee on this date at 13:11, this is 13 days after last perigee on 10 April 2047 at 16:08 in ♎ Libra. Lunar orbit is starting to get closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth for 14 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next perigee on 9 May 2047 at 02:43 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 406 676 km
This apogee Moon is 406 676 km (252 697 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest apogee of 2047. It is 1 268 km farther than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 33 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
7 days after its ascending node on 16 April 2047 at 14:32 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 6 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 1 May 2047 at 06:05 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
7 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
10 days after previous South standstill on 14 April 2047 at 10:31 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-25.536°. Next 4 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠25.418° in the next northern standstill on 28 April 2047 at 23:17 in ♊ Gemini.
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.