New Moon on . The illuminated surface of the Moon is 0%. Lunar cycle is 1 day young.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 3 December 2013 at 00:22 UTC.
The moon rises at sunrise and sets at sunset. It's part facing the Earth is completely in shadow.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2013 after 13 days on 17 December 2013 at 09:28.
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.
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1958" and ∠1947".
At 00:22 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 172 of Meeus index or lunation 1125 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 52 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2013. It is 28 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 52 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 17 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠336.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠353°.
11 days since point of apogee on 22 November 2013 at 09:50 in ♋ Cancer 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 4 December 2013 at 10:15 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 366 075 km (227 468 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 065 km (223 734 mi).
2 days after ascending node on 30 November 2013 at 16:59 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 13 December 2013 at 10:10 in ♉ Taurus.
At 16:38 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-19.552°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠19.570° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 17 December 2013 at 01:00.
2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
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