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 4 April 2057 at 01:31 UTC.
Moon phases for next 7 days
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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 ∠8° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1828" and ∠1918".
Pink Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2057 after 15 days on 19 April 2057 at 10:49.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 4 April 2057 at 01:31
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 12 April 2057 at 04:59
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 19 April 2057 at 10:49
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 26 April 2057 at 02:06
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 707 / 1660
At 11:24 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 707 of Meeus index or 1660 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.59 days
29 days, 14 hours and 7 minutes is the length of new lunation 707. It is 54 minutes shorter than next lunation 708 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 23 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 40 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠80°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠80°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠117°. 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
10 days after point of perigee on 24 March 2057 at 08:23 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 9 April 2057 at 05:48 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 392 187 km
Moon is 392 187 km (243 694 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 5 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 996 km (251 653 mi).
Moon after descending node
6 days after its descending node on 27 March 2057 at 19:16 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 7 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 10 April 2057 at 19:48 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
19 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
6 days after previous South standstill on 28 March 2057 at 01:43 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-23.258°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠23.399° in the next northern standstill on 11 April 2057 at 06:46 in ♋ Cancer.
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.