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 27 February 2036 at 04:59 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 first ∠0° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2036 after 14 days on 12 March 2036 at 09:09.
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 ∠1786" and ∠1938".
At 10:17 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 446 of Meeus index or lunation 1399 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 42 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2036. It is 2 hours and 45 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 58 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 5 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠195.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠223.9°.
3 days since point of apogee on 23 February 2036 at 03:15 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 March 2036 at 02:38 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 401 345 km (249 384 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 380 km (225 794 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♒ Aquarius at 05:24 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 10 March 2036 at 13:58 in ♌ Leo.
4 days since the last southern standstill on 22 February 2036 at 04:47 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.246° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.281° at the point of next northern standstill on 7 March 2036 at 07:25 in ♋ Cancer.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo 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