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 October 2024 at 18:49 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 ∠7° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2024 after 14 days on 17 October 2024 at 11:26.
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 ∠1918".
At 18:49 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 306 of Meeus index or lunation 1259 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 58 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2024. It is 24 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 5 hours and 14 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 49 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠179.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠204.3°.
Moon is at apogee at 19:40 about 14 days since last perigee on 18 September 2024 at 13:26 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next perigee on 17 October 2024 at 00:46 in ♈ Aries.
This apogee Moon is 406 517 km (252 598 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest apogee of 2024. It is 1 109 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 192 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon is in descending node in ♎ Libra at 11:52 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 16 October 2024 at 07:05 in ♈ Aries.
7 days since the last northern standstill on 24 September 2024 at 17:04 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.695° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.684° at the point of next southern standstill on 9 October 2024 at 11:53 in ♑ Capricorn.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last 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