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 2 July 2019 at 19:16 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 ∠6° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2019 after 14 days on 16 July 2019 at 21:38.
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 ∠1921" and ∠1887".
At 19:16 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 241 of Meeus index or lunation 1194 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 56 minutes. It is 31 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 4 hours and 48 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 21 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠321.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠340.5°.
9 days since point of apogee on 23 June 2019 at 07:50 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 5 July 2019 at 04:54 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 373 088 km (231 826 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 729 km (226 011 mi).
13 days after descending node on 19 June 2019 at 01:49 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 3 July 2019 at 06:53 in ♋ Cancer.
At 22:02 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠22.379°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-22.375° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 15 July 2019 at 22:49.
26 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