Waxing
Crescent ♉ 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 less than 1 day young Moon is in ♈ Aries.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 15 April 2075 at 08:55 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 ♈ Aries
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♉ Taurus later.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1819" and ∠1912".
Pink Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2075 after 15 days on 30 April 2075 at 18:37.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 23 April 2075 at 11:53
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 30 April 2075 at 18:37
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 7 May 2075 at 09:59
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 14 May 2075 at 23:22
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 931 / 1884
At 08:55 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 931 of Meeus index or 1884 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.6 days
29 days, 14 hours and 27 minutes is the length of new lunation 931. It is 50 minutes shorter than next lunation 932 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 43 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 20 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠113.2°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠113.2°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠145.4°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before apogee
10 days after point of perigee on 4 April 2075 at 22:38 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 20 April 2075 at 18:02 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 394 132 km
Moon is 394 132 km (244 902 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 5 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 871 km (251 575 mi).
Moon before ascending node
7 days after its descending node on 8 April 2075 at 04:27 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 6 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 22 April 2075 at 03:55 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
20 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
7 days after previous South standstill on 7 April 2075 at 15:33 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-22.269°. Next 6 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠22.404° in the next northern standstill on 21 April 2075 at 16:04 in ♋ Cancer.
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.