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 8 April 2024 at 18:21 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 ∠15° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2024 after 15 days on 23 April 2024 at 23:49.
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 ∠1964" and ∠1916".
At 18:21 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 300 of Meeus index or lunation 1253 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 1 minute. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2024. It is 15 minutes shorter 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 43 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 26 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠17.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠36°.
1 day since point of perigee on 7 April 2024 at 17:53 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 20 April 2024 at 02:09 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 364 957 km (226 774 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 625 km (252 044 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♈ Aries at 12:20 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 22 April 2024 at 10:45 in ♎ Libra.
7 days since the last southern standstill on 1 April 2024 at 08:58 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.559° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.552° at the point of next northern standstill on 13 April 2024 at 22:36 in ♊ Gemini.
At 12:20 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
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