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 7 April 2016 at 11:24 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 ∠18° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2016 after 14 days on 22 April 2016 at 05:24.
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 ∠1972" and ∠1916".
At 11:24 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 201 of Meeus index or lunation 1154 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 6 minutes. It is 36 minutes longer 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 4 hours and 38 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 31 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠355.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠10.8°.
Moon is at perigee at 17:36 about 13 days since last apogee on 25 March 2016 at 14:16 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next apogee on 21 April 2016 at 16:05 in ♎ Libra.
This perigee Moon is 357 164 km (221 931 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 344 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 13 192 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
1 day after descending node on 5 April 2016 at 17:27 in ♓ Pisces 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 18 April 2016 at 18:04 in ♍ Virgo.
7 days since the last southern standstill on 30 March 2016 at 22:12 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.239° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.288° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 April 2016 at 12:12 in ♋ Cancer.
15 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo 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