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 18 September 2028 at 18:24 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 ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2028 after 15 days on 3 October 2028 at 16:25.
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 ∠1910".
At 18:24 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 355 of Meeus index or lunation 1308 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 33 minutes. It is 1 hour and 48 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 4 hours and 11 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 58 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠2.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠18.5°.
Moon is at perigee at 14:23 about 13 days since last apogee on 4 September 2028 at 20:03 in ♓ Pisces 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 1 October 2028 at 21:38 in ♓ Pisces.
This perigee Moon is 357 048 km (221 859 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 460 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 13 308 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
4 days after descending node on 14 September 2028 at 09:06 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 26 September 2028 at 22:21 in ♑ Capricorn.
6 days since the last northern standstill on 12 September 2028 at 01:18 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.693° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.598° at the point of next southern standstill on 24 September 2028 at 13:21 in ♐ Sagittarius.
18 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn 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