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 14 October 2042 at 02:03 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 ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♏ Scorpio later.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2042 after 14 days on 28 October 2042 at 19:48.
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 ∠1924".
At 02:03 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 529 of Meeus index or lunation 1482 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 25 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2042. It is 24 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 41 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 22 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠177.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠201.7°.
Moon is at apogee at 10:02 about 14 days since last perigee on 29 September 2042 at 23:50 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next perigee on 28 October 2042 at 11:27 in ♉ Taurus.
This apogee Moon is 406 527 km (252 604 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest apogee of 2042. It is 1 119 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 182 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
1 day after descending node on 13 October 2042 at 20:03 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 27 October 2042 at 16:01 in ♈ Aries.
9 days since the last northern standstill on 5 October 2042 at 09:09 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.491° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.484° at the point of next southern standstill on 20 October 2042 at 02:47 in ♑ Capricorn.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries 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