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 ♎ Libra.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 21 October 2082 at 18:50 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 ♎ Libra
Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1928".
Beaver Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2082 after 15 days on 5 November 2082 at 14:38.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 28 October 2082 at 12:13
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 5 November 2082 at 14:38
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 13 November 2082 at 12:46
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 20 November 2082 at 04:19
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 1024 / 1977
At 18:50 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 1024 of Meeus index or 1977 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.4 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 29 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 15 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 54 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠358°
The true anomaly is ∠358°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠13.3°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 21:44. It is 13 days after previous apogee on 8 October 2082 at 14:12 in ♈ Aries. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 14 days, until point of next apogee on 4 November 2082 at 15:15 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 356 831 km
This perigee Moon is 356 831 km (221 725 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest perigee of 2082. It is 5 677 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 406 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
4 days after descending node on 17 October 2082 at 11:28 in ♌ Leo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 29 October 2082 at 23:42 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
18 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 12 October 2082 at 18:49 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.713°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.625° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 October 2082 at 12:18 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
