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 3 October 2043 at 03:12 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 first ∠2° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2043 after 15 days on 18 October 2043 at 11:56.
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 ∠1820" and ∠1917".
At 13:17 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 540 of Meeus index or lunation 1493 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 55 minutes. It is 2 hours and 50 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 1 hour and 11 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 52 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠88.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠123.9°.
10 days since point of perigee on 22 September 2043 at 00:24 in ♉ Taurus 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 7 October 2043 at 22:24 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 393 727 km (244 651 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 459 km (251 941 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♍ Virgo at 07:39 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 16 October 2043 at 17:59 in ♓ Pisces.
6 days since the last northern standstill on 25 September 2043 at 14:42 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.712° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.686° at the point of next southern standstill on 9 October 2043 at 19:46 in ♐ Sagittarius.
13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last 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