New
Moon* ♉ 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 20 April 2061 at 03:04 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 ∠21° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1953" and ∠1910".
Flower Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2061 after 15 days on 4 May 2061 at 14:13.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 20 April 2061 at 03:04
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 26 April 2061 at 17:55
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 4 May 2061 at 14:13
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 12 May 2061 at 16:10
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 757 / 1710
At 17:23 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 757 of Meeus index or 1710 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.4 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 42 minutes. It is 1 hour and 44 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 2 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 7 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠324.8°
The true anomaly is ∠324.8°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠343.2°.
Moon before apogee
10 days after point of apogee on 8 April 2061 at 18:12 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 21 April 2061 at 03:02 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 367 024 km
The Moon is 367 024 km (228 058 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 852 km (222 980 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♈ Aries at 10:03 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 2 May 2061 at 12:29 in ♎ Libra.
New draconic month
At 10:03 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 11 April 2061 at 10:51 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.439°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.417° at the point of next northern standstill on 24 April 2061 at 08:45 in ♋ Cancer.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
