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 8 June 2013 at 15:56 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 ∠16° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2013 after 14 days on 23 June 2013 at 11:32.
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 ∠1890".
At 15:56 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 166 of Meeus index or lunation 1119 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 18 minutes. It is 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 2 hours and 34 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 29 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠168.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠191.6°.
13 days since point of perigee on 26 May 2013 at 01:45 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 9 June 2013 at 21:40 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 404 818 km (251 542 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 487 km (252 579 mi).
2 days after descending node on 6 June 2013 at 00:59 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 20 June 2013 at 09:51 in ♏ Scorpio.
At 19:16 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠20.200°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-20.186° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 22 June 2013 at 16:11.
15 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio 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