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 9 February 2024 at 22:59 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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2024 after 14 days on 24 February 2024 at 12:30.
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 ∠1969" and ∠1944".
At 22:59 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 298 of Meeus index or lunation 1251 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 1 minute. It is 41 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 2 hours and 43 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 26 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠345.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠1.4°.
Moon is at perigee at 18:49 about 12 days since last apogee on 29 January 2024 at 08:14 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 25 February 2024 at 15:00 in ♍ Virgo.
This perigee Moon is 358 088 km (222 506 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 420 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 12 268 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
9 days after descending node on 31 January 2024 at 20:17 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 13 February 2024 at 17:01 in ♈ Aries.
3 days since the last southern standstill on 6 February 2024 at 17:06 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.304° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.376° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 February 2024 at 08:47 in ♋ Cancer.
23 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries 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