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 14 February 2010 at 02:51 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 ∠0° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2010 after 14 days on 28 February 2010 at 16:38.
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 ∠1943".
At 02:51 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 125 of Meeus index or lunation 1078 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 10 minutes. It is 2 hours and 42 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 26 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 37 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠188.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠215.2°.
1 day since point of apogee on 13 February 2010 at 02:06 in ♒ Aquarius 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 27 February 2010 at 21:40 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 404 782 km (251 520 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 13 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 832 km (222 346 mi).
3 days after ascending node on 11 February 2010 at 04:58 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 25 February 2010 at 09:11 in ♋ Cancer.
5 days since the last southern standstill on 8 February 2010 at 14:27 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.749° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.657° at the point of next northern standstill on 23 February 2010 at 06:00 in ♊ Gemini.
3 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn 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