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 1 February 2041 at 05:43 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 ∠17° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2041 after 14 days on 16 February 2041 at 02:21.
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 ∠1973" and ∠1947".
At 05:43 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 508 of Meeus index or lunation 1461 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 56 minutes. It is 6 minutes longer 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 2 hours and 48 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 21 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠358.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠14°.
Moon is at perigee at 07:46 about 13 days since last apogee on 18 January 2041 at 23:16 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next apogee on 14 February 2041 at 23:03 in ♌ Leo.
This perigee Moon is 356 610 km (221 587 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest perigee of 2041. It is 5 898 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 185 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
5 days after descending node on 26 January 2041 at 15:09 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 8 February 2041 at 00:39 in ♉ Taurus.
2 days since the last southern standstill on 29 January 2041 at 22:24 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.843° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.907° at the point of next northern standstill on 11 February 2041 at 21:04 in ♋ Cancer.
20 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus 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