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 15 February 2037 at 04:54 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 ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2037 after 14 days on 2 March 2037 at 00:28.
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 ∠1942".
At 04:54 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 459 of Meeus index or lunation 1412 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 42 minutes. It is 2 hours and 11 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 ∠173.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠197.5°.
Moon is at apogee at 23:45 about 14 days since last perigee on 1 February 2037 at 06:58 in ♌ Leo 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 1 March 2037 at 19:48 in ♍ Virgo.
This apogee Moon is 406 539 km (252 612 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest apogee of 2037. It is 1 131 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 170 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
1 day after descending node on 13 February 2037 at 14:49 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 27 February 2037 at 18:35 in ♌ Leo.
4 days since the last southern standstill on 11 February 2037 at 08:55 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.580° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.631° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 February 2037 at 22:25 in ♋ Cancer.
15 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