New Moon
New MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

New Moon in Taurus

New Moon on . The illuminated surface of the Moon is 0%. Lunar cycle is less than 1 day young.

* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 24 April 2085 at 02:59 UTC.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises at sunrise and sets at sunset. It's part facing the Earth is completely in shadow.

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♉ Taurus

Moon is passing about ∠10° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.

Flower Moon after 15 days

Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2085 after 15 days on 9 May 2085 at 16:04.

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.

Apparent angular diameter

Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1880" and ∠1907".

New lunation 1055 / 2008

At 02:59 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 1055 of Meeus index or lunation 2008 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.48 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 24 minutes. It is 1 hour and 31 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit 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 1 hour and 20 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 49 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠60.6°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠60.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠94.1°.

Moon after perigee

4 days since point of perigee on 19 April 2085 at 21:32 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 2 May 2085 at 03:39 in ♌ Leo.

Distance to Moon 381 240 km

The Moon is 381 240 km (236 892 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 189 km (251 151 mi).

Moon before descending node

8 days after ascending node on 15 April 2085 at 15:03 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 28 April 2085 at 14:50 in ♊ Gemini.

Moon before northern standstill

9 days since the last southern standstill on 14 April 2085 at 12:50 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.266° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.188° at the point of next northern standstill on 27 April 2085 at 11:39 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

8 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy

The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov