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 5 October 2078 at 23:06 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 passing about ∠20° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1780" and ∠1920".
Hunter Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2078 after 14 days on 21 October 2078 at 02:55.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 14 October 2078 at 04:07
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 21 October 2078 at 02:55
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 27 October 2078 at 18:34
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 4 November 2078 at 16:56
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 974 / 1927
At 23:06 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 974 of Meeus index or 1927 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.74 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 50 minutes. It is 1 hour and 22 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 6 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 57 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠146.4°
The true anomaly is ∠146.4°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠172.1°.
Moon before perigee
12 days after point of perigee on 23 September 2078 at 13:38 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 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 9 October 2078 at 06:58 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 402 714 km
The Moon is 402 714 km (250 235 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 013 km (252 285 mi).
Moon before descending node
11 days after ascending node on 24 September 2078 at 13:18 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 8 October 2078 at 06:08 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
11 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, 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 28 September 2078 at 11:14 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.518°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.596° at the point of next southern standstill on 13 October 2078 at 00:13 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.
