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 ♉ Taurus.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 1 May 2079 at 10:57 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 ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing about ∠12° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1960" and ∠1904".
Flower Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2079 after 14 days on 15 May 2079 at 20:58.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 8 May 2079 at 01:37
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 15 May 2079 at 20:58
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 23 May 2079 at 23:15
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 30 May 2079 at 18:41
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 981 / 1934
At 10:57 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 981 of Meeus index or 1934 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.32 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 44 minutes. It is 54 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 9 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠341.2°
The true anomaly is ∠341.2°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠356.9°.
Moon before apogee
11 days after point of apogee on 20 April 2079 at 06:49 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 2 May 2079 at 13:49 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 365 766 km
The Moon is 365 766 km (227 276 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 262 km (223 235 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 30 April 2079 at 18:47 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 13 May 2079 at 20:46 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 22 April 2079 at 00:03 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.062°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.041° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 May 2079 at 02:09 in ♋ Cancer.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
