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 10 March 2024 at 09:00 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 ∠22° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2024 after 14 days on 25 March 2024 at 07:00.
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 ∠1973" and ∠1931".
At 09:00 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 299 of Meeus index or lunation 1252 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 20 minutes. It is 19 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 3 hours and 24 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 45 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠1.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠17.2°.
Moon is at perigee at 07:06 about 13 days since last apogee on 25 February 2024 at 15:00 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next apogee on 23 March 2024 at 15:44 in ♍ Virgo.
This perigee Moon is 356 895 km (221 764 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest perigee of 2024. It is 5 613 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 470 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
11 days after descending node on 27 February 2024 at 22:53 in ♎ Libra 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 12 March 2024 at 01:18 in ♈ Aries.
5 days since the last southern standstill on 5 March 2024 at 02:03 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.477° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.526° at the point of next northern standstill on 17 March 2024 at 14:45 in ♊ Gemini.
25 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