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 1 day young Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 30 October 2073 at 19:13 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 is entering ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1933".
Beaver Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2073 after 15 days on 14 November 2073 at 19:55.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 6 November 2073 at 15:42
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 14 November 2073 at 19:55
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 22 November 2073 at 14:15
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 29 November 2073 at 05:12
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 913 / 1866
At 19:13 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 913 of Meeus index or 1866 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.42 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 59 minutes. It is 1 hour and 44 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 45 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 24 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠6.3°
The true anomaly is ∠6.3°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠22.5°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 10:23. It is 14 days after previous apogee on 16 October 2073 at 08:16 in ♈ Aries. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 12 days, until point of next apogee on 12 November 2073 at 10:04 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 357 043 km
This perigee Moon is 357 043 km (221 856 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 465 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 13 313 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
5 days after ascending node on 25 October 2073 at 09:03 in ♌ Leo. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 6 November 2073 at 19:59 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
5 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 22 October 2073 at 08:46 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.918°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-20.020° at the point of next southern standstill on 3 November 2073 at 23:06 in ♑ Capricorn.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
