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 ♎ Libra.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 15 October 2069 at 04:03 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 ♎ Libra
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♏ Scorpio later.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1772" and ∠1925".
Hunter Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2069 after 14 days on 30 October 2069 at 03:35.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 23 October 2069 at 07:57
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 30 October 2069 at 03:35
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 5 November 2069 at 20:40
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 13 November 2069 at 22:38
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 863 / 1816
At 04:03 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 863 of Meeus index or 1816 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.77 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 34 minutes. It is 26 minutes shorter 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 50 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 13 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠161.2°
The true anomaly is ∠161.2°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠185.4°.
Moon before perigee
13 days after point of perigee on 1 October 2069 at 22:56 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 17 October 2069 at 05:28 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 404 555 km
The Moon is 404 555 km (251 379 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 378 km (252 512 mi).
Moon before ascending node
12 days after descending node on 2 October 2069 at 12:51 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 16 October 2069 at 05:04 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
26 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 5 October 2069 at 17:07 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.306°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.268° at the point of next southern standstill on 20 October 2069 at 03:47 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
