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 4 February 2019 at 21:04 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 ∠23° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2019 after 14 days on 19 February 2019 at 15:53.
There is extremely high New Moon ocean tide on this date. Combined Sun and Moon gravitational tidal force working on Earth is heavy, because of the Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment and the near perigee.
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1946".
At 21:04 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 236 of Meeus index or lunation 1189 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 1 minute. It is 2 hours and 13 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 6 hours and 16 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 47 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠175.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠200.2°.
Moon is at apogee at 09:26 about 14 days since last perigee on 21 January 2019 at 19:58 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next perigee on 19 February 2019 at 09:06 in ♌ Leo.
This apogee Moon is 406 556 km (252 622 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest apogee of 2019. It is 1 148 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 153 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
2 days after descending node on 3 February 2019 at 06:35 in ♑ Capricorn 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 17 February 2019 at 09:42 in ♋ Cancer.
3 days since the last southern standstill on 2 February 2019 at 00:48 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.547° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.590° at the point of next northern standstill on 16 February 2019 at 09:56 in ♋ Cancer.
15 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer 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