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 9 April 2043 at 19:06 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 ∠15° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2043 after 14 days on 24 April 2043 at 07:23.
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 ∠1960" and ∠1915".
At 19:06 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 535 of Meeus index or lunation 1488 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 15 minutes. It is 1 hour and 1 minute 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 4 hours and 29 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 40 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠345.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠0.5°.
11 days since point of apogee on 29 March 2043 at 05:28 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 April 2043 at 16:14 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 365 636 km (227 196 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 473 km (222 745 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♈ Aries at 01:17 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next descending node later on 22 April 2043 at 04:12 in ♎ Libra.
7 days since the last southern standstill on 1 April 2043 at 21:04 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.660° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.638° at the point of next northern standstill on 14 April 2043 at 15:23 in ♊ Gemini.
At 01:17 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
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