New Moon: October 2028
The short answer
The New Moon in October 2028 is exact at 02:57 UTC on 18 October 2028, at 25.3° Libra.
The New Moon in October 2028 is exact at 02:57 UTC on 18 October 2028, at 25.3° Libra.
Exact instant: 02:57 UTC on 18 October 2028, at 25.3° Libra.
| City | Local time |
|---|---|
| Sydney | 1:57 pm AEDT, Oct 18 |
| London | 3:57 AM GMT+1, Oct 18 |
| New York | 10:57 PM EDT, Oct 17 |
| Los Angeles | 7:57 PM PDT, Oct 17 |
| Mumbai | 8:27 AM GMT+5:30, Oct 18 |
| Tokyo | 11:57 AM GMT+9, Oct 18 |
The sky at that moment
3rd decan of Libra (25.3°), the Gemini third of the sign, traditionally ruled by Mercury.
- The Moon is 1.3° from a sextile to Mars.
Nineteen years earlier, on Sunday 18 October 2009 (Sydney), the New Moon fell at 25.0° Libra, 0.3° from this one: the Moon's phases come back to almost the same dates every 19 years.
Seeing it from Australia
A New Moon cannot be seen. From Australia the first thin crescent shows low in the west after sunset a day or two later, lit on its left side (in the Northern Hemisphere it is lit on the right).
| City | Moonrise | Moonset |
|---|---|---|
| Brisbane | about 4:44 am AEST | about 6:13 pm AEST |
| Sydney | about 5:44 am AEDT | about 7:31 pm AEDT |
| Melbourne | about 6:04 am AEDT | about 8:04 pm AEDT |
| Adelaide | about 6:04 am ACDT | about 7:56 pm ACDT |
| Hobart | about 5:46 am AEDT | about 8:05 pm AEDT |
| Perth | about 5:11 am AWST | about 6:56 pm AWST |
| Darwin | about 6:02 am ACST | about 6:55 pm ACST |
Where it falls, by rising sign
What a new moon tends to do in a house: New Moon meaning.
| Rising sign | Where this new moon falls for you |
|---|---|
| Aries | Your 7th house: your significant other, close business partners, and open opponents. |
| Taurus | Your 6th house: the actual work of your days, routines, and your body's upkeep. |
| Gemini | Your 5th house: romance, flirtation, children, and anything you make for the joy of it. |
| Cancer | Your 4th house: home, family, where you are from, and your private life. |
| Leo | Your 3rd house: conversations, messages, short trips, siblings and neighbours. |
| Virgo | Your 2nd house: the money you earn, what you own, and what you think you are worth. |
| Libra | Your 1st house: you, your body, your appearance, the first impression you make. |
| Scorpio | Your 12th house: rest, retreat, endings, and what you have not admitted yet. |
| Sagittarius | Your 11th house: friends, groups, networks, and what you are aiming at next. |
| Capricorn | Your 10th house: your career, your public standing, and the people above you. |
| Aquarius | Your 9th house: long trips, study, publishing, law, and what you believe. |
| Pisces | Your 8th house: joint finances, debt, tax, inheritance, and what you only say in private. |
Where this time comes from
A lunation is the instant the Sun-Moon angle crosses 0° (New Moon) or 180° (Full Moon), found by scanning the real ephemeris hourly and bisecting to the exact minute. The same engine drives the full moon calendar.
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