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 24 May 2009 at 12:11 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 first ∠3° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2009 after 14 days on 7 June 2009 at 18:12.
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 ∠1946" and ∠1894".
At 12:11 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 116 of Meeus index or lunation 1069 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 24 minutes. It is 24 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 5 hours and 20 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 49 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠332.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠349.4°.
10 days since point of apogee on 14 May 2009 at 02:57 in ♑ Capricorn 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 26 May 2009 at 03:44 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 368 316 km (228 861 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 155 km (224 411 mi).
9 days after ascending node on 15 May 2009 at 07:13 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 28 May 2009 at 10:19 in ♌ Leo.
12 days since the last southern standstill on 11 May 2009 at 20:03 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.486° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠26.451° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 May 2009 at 16:56 in ♊ Gemini.
9 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius 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