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 15 August 2042 at 18:01 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 ∠20° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2042 after 15 days on 31 August 2042 at 02:02.
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 ∠1815" and ∠1895".
At 18:01 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 527 of Meeus index or lunation 1480 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 49 minutes. It is 2 hours and 24 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 2 hours and 5 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 58 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠123.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠152.7°.
10 days since point of perigee on 4 August 2042 at 18:09 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 20 August 2042 at 13:59 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 394 965 km (245 420 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 193 km (251 775 mi).
8 days after ascending node on 6 August 2042 at 14:42 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 20 August 2042 at 09:13 in ♎ Libra.
3 days since the last northern standstill on 11 August 2042 at 21:49 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.226° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.327° at the point of next southern standstill on 26 August 2042 at 11:39 in ♑ Capricorn.
8 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries 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