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 21 June 2039 at 17:21 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 ∠9° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2039 after 13 days on 6 July 2039 at 02:03.
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 ∠1781" and ∠1888".
At 17:21 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 488 of Meeus index or lunation 1441 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 33 minutes. It is 1 hour and 37 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 1 hour and 49 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 14 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠199.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠226.3°.
2 days since point of apogee on 19 June 2039 at 15:56 in ♉ Taurus 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 4 July 2039 at 20:31 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 402 447 km (250 069 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 517 km (223 394 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 21 June 2039 at 00:51 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 4 July 2039 at 14:57 in ♐ Sagittarius.
At 16:02 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠24.701°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-24.696° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 5 July 2039 at 22:01.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini 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