New Moon on . The illuminated surface of the Moon is 1%. Lunar cycle is 1 day young.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 23 October 2033 at 07:28 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 ∠21° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2033 after 15 days on 6 November 2033 at 20:32.
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 ∠1929".
At 13:40 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 417 of Meeus index or lunation 1370 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 49 minutes. It is 22 minutes shorter 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 5 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 58 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠166.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠190.3°.
Moon is at apogee at 03:15 about 13 days since last perigee on 8 October 2033 at 12:11 in ♈ Aries 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 5 November 2033 at 23:57 in ♈ Aries.
This apogee Moon is 406 439 km (252 549 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 031 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 270 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
1 day after ascending node on 21 October 2033 at 19:04 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 4 November 2033 at 16:35 in ♈ Aries.
9 days since the last northern standstill on 13 October 2033 at 07:00 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.284° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.327° at the point of next southern standstill on 27 October 2033 at 23:48 in ♐ Sagittarius.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra 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