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 2 August 2027 at 10:05 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 ∠11° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2027 after 14 days on 17 August 2027 at 07:29.
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 ∠1891".
At 10:05 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 341 of Meeus index or lunation 1294 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 36 minutes. It is 1 hour and 19 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 5 hours and 8 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 1 minute longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠2.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠18.2°.
Moon is at perigee at 06:28 about 13 days since last apogee on 19 July 2027 at 11:52 in ♒ Aquarius 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 15 August 2027 at 14:23 in ♑ Capricorn.
This perigee Moon is 357 362 km (222 054 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 146 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 12 994 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon is in descending node in ♌ Leo at 12:33 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 August 2027 at 05:51 in ♒ Aquarius.
3 days since the last northern standstill on 30 July 2027 at 05:47 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.208° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.209° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 August 2027 at 02:05 in ♐ Sagittarius.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius 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