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 5 December 2048 at 15:30 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 ∠12° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2048 after 14 days on 20 December 2048 at 06:39.
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 ∠1966" and ∠1947".
At 15:30 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 605 of Meeus index or lunation 1558 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 54 minutes. It is 3 minutes longer 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°).
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 50 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 19 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠348.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠3.8°.
11 days since point of apogee on 23 November 2048 at 18:24 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 6 December 2048 at 07:58 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 364 680 km (226 602 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 717 km (222 275 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 22:27 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 19 December 2048 at 09:29 in ♊ Gemini.
At 21:34 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-22.922°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2048. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠22.926° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 19 December 2048 at 07:59.
At 22:27 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
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
