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 26 December 2038 at 01:02 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 ∠4° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2039 after 15 days on 10 January 2039 at 11:45.
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 ∠1953" and ∠1951".
At 13:47 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 481 of Meeus index or lunation 1434 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 15 minutes. It is 1 hour and 19 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 1 hour and 29 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 40 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠10.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠28.2°.
1 day since point of perigee on 24 December 2038 at 08:23 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 5 January 2039 at 05:10 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 367 111 km (228 112 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 107 km (251 722 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 19:56 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 8 January 2039 at 23:18 in ♊ Gemini.
11 days since the last northern standstill on 13 December 2038 at 13:26 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.887° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-23.882° at the point of next southern standstill on 26 December 2038 at 13:42 in ♑ Capricorn.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last 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