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 11 December 2061 at 22:32 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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2061 after 14 days on 26 December 2061 at 16:53.
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 ∠1768" and ∠1949".
At 22:32 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 766 of Meeus index or lunation 1719 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 20 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2061. It is 1 hour and 2 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 6 hours and 36 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 27 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠176.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠201.9°.
Moon is at apogee at 07:27 about 14 days since last perigee on 27 November 2061 at 19:57 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 26 days until point of next perigee on 8 January 2062 at 09:05 in ♐ Sagittarius.
This apogee Moon is 406 709 km (252 717 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 301 km further than the mean apogee distance and it is the farthest apogee of 21st century.
6 days after descending node on 5 December 2061 at 23:41 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 20 December 2061 at 15:02 in ♈ Aries.
At 21:05 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.385°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.396° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 26 December 2061 at 10:29.
19 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the second to the final 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
