New Moon on . The illuminated surface of the Moon is 1%. Lunar cycle is 1 day young.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 23 February 2001 at 08:21 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 ∠25° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2001 after 15 days on 9 March 2001 at 17:23.
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 ∠1771" and ∠1939".
At 13:07 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 13 of Meeus index or lunation 966 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 14 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2001. It is 2 hours and 14 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 7 hours and 1 minute longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 33 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠177.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠202.8°.
1 day since point of apogee on 20 February 2001 at 21:38 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 8 March 2001 at 08:55 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 404 745 km (251 497 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 13 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 779 km (223 556 mi).
3 days after descending node on 19 February 2001 at 02:52 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 5 March 2001 at 07:23 in ♋ Cancer.
3 days since the last southern standstill on 18 February 2001 at 21:27 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.648° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.756° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 March 2001 at 04:32 in ♋ Cancer.
16 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer 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