Waxing
Crescent ♏ Scorpio
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 less than 1 day young Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 26 October 2068 at 04:17 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 passing about ∠7° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1785" and ∠1931".
Beaver Moon after 13 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2068 after 13 days on 9 November 2068 at 11:40.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 2 November 2068 at 20:38
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 9 November 2068 at 11:40
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 16 November 2068 at 17:33
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 24 November 2068 at 21:42
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 851 / 1804
At 04:17 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 851 of Meeus index or 1804 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.73 days
29 days, 17 hours and 25 minutes is the length of new lunation 851. It is 1 hour and 23 minutes longer than next lunation 852 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 41 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 22 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠209.1°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠209.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠241.5°. 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 after apogee
3 days after point of apogee on 23 October 2068 at 04:48 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 12 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 7 November 2068 at 20:44 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 401 562 km
Moon is 401 562 km (249 519 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 12 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 360 864 km (224 230 mi).
Moon before ascending node
13 days after its descending node on 13 October 2068 at 09:31 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 27 October 2068 at 18:44 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
25 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days after previous North standstill on 15 October 2068 at 05:07 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠20.707°. Next 3 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-20.659° in the next southern standstill on 29 October 2068 at 20:53 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.