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 1 May 2003 at 12:15 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 ∠11° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2003 after 14 days on 16 May 2003 at 03:36.
There is extremely high New Moon ocean tide on this date. Combined Sun and Moon gravitational tidal force working on Earth is heavy, because of the Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment and the near perigee.
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1904".
At 12:15 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 41 of Meeus index or lunation 994 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 5 minutes. It is 1 hour and 46 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 3 hours and 21 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 42 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠181.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠205.5°.
Moon is at apogee at 07:39 about 14 days since last perigee on 17 April 2003 at 04:58 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next perigee on 15 May 2003 at 15:39 in ♏ Scorpio.
This apogee Moon is 406 530 km (252 606 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest apogee of 2003. It is 1 122 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 179 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
12 days after descending node on 19 April 2003 at 00:24 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 3 May 2003 at 02:17 in ♉ Taurus.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 21 April 2003 at 17:59 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.442° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.496° at the point of next northern standstill on 6 May 2003 at 09:48 in ♋ Cancer.
25 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus 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