Waxing
Crescent ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase on 26 October 2068 Friday is New Moon, less than 1 day young Moon is in Scorpio.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinNew 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 rises at sunrise and sets at sunset. It's part facing the Earth is completely in shadow.
Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1785" and ∠1931".
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2068 after 13 days on 9 November 2068 at 11:40.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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°).
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.
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).
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.
25 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
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.
The Moon is in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun on this date and this alignment forms Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.