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 27 October 2076 at 20:50 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 ∠13° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1842" and ∠1932".
Beaver Moon after 13 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2076 after 13 days on 10 November 2076 at 21:07.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 4 November 2076 at 01:58
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 10 November 2076 at 21:07
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 18 November 2076 at 15:15
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 26 November 2076 at 11:28
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 950 / 1903
At 20:50 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 950 of Meeus index or 1903 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.61 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 38 minutes. It is 1 hour and 13 minutes longer 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 1 hour and 54 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 9 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠254.1°
The true anomaly is ∠254.1°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠290.9°.
Moon after apogee
6 days after point of apogee on 22 October 2076 at 03:11 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 November 2076 at 20:15 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 389 133 km
The Moon is 389 133 km (241 796 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 114 km (228 735 mi).
Moon before descending node
11 days after ascending node on 16 October 2076 at 15:38 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 31 October 2076 at 02:13 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
11 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
10 days since the previous standstill on 18 October 2076 at 10:01 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.937°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.032° at the point of next southern standstill on 1 November 2076 at 19:09 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.
