New
Moon* ♈ Aries
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 13 April 2048 at 05:20 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 ∠1808" and ∠1913".
Pink Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2048 after 15 days on 28 April 2048 at 11:13.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 13 April 2048 at 05:20
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 21 April 2048 at 10:02
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 28 April 2048 at 11:13
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 5 May 2048 at 02:22
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 596 / 1549
At 14:27 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 596 of Meeus index or 1549 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.62 days
29 days, 14 hours and 52 minutes is the length of new lunation 596. It is 46 minutes shorter than next lunation 597 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 8 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 55 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠100.4°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠100.4°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠135.6°. 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 1 April 2048 at 10:10 in ♏ Scorpio. 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 17 April 2048 at 07:22 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 396 385 km
Moon is 396 385 km (246 302 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 4 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 534 km (251 987 mi).
Moon before descending node
7 days after its ascending node on 4 April 2048 at 14:57 in ♐ Sagittarius, 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 18 April 2048 at 16:39 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
7 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
8 days after previous South standstill on 3 April 2048 at 18:56 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-23.977°. Next 5 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠23.861° in the next northern standstill on 17 April 2048 at 19:00 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.