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 22 June 2009 at 19:35 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 ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2009 after 14 days on 7 July 2009 at 09:21.
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 ∠1965" and ∠1888".
At 19:35 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 117 of Meeus index or lunation 1070 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 1 minute. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2009. It is 27 minutes shorter 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 5 hours and 44 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 25 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠349.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠4.5°.
11 days since point of apogee on 10 June 2009 at 16:04 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 23 June 2009 at 10:39 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 364 691 km (226 608 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 018 km (222 462 mi).
11 days after ascending node on 11 June 2009 at 10:15 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 24 June 2009 at 17:24 in ♋ Cancer.
At 02:48 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠26.446°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-26.460° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 5 July 2009 at 07:34.
11 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