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 22 June 2028 at 18:27 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 ∠2° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2028 after 14 days on 6 July 2028 at 18:11.
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 ∠1899" and ∠1888".
At 18:27 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 352 of Meeus index or lunation 1305 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 34 minutes. It is 52 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 4 hours and 10 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 59 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠308.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠330.4°.
8 days since point of apogee on 14 June 2028 at 04:46 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 26 June 2028 at 04:14 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 377 478 km (234 554 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 533 km (227 753 mi).
12 days after ascending node on 10 June 2028 at 02:18 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 24 June 2028 at 06:42 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 21 June 2028 at 22:15 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.920° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.933° at the point of next southern standstill on 4 July 2028 at 18:46 in ♐ Sagittarius.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first 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