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 29 March 2044 at 09:26 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 ∠11° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2044 after 13 days on 12 April 2044 at 09:39.
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 ∠1900" and ∠1921".
At 09:26 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 547 of Meeus index or lunation 1500 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 16 minutes. It is 2 hours and 19 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 2 hours and 28 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 41 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠304.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠328.1°.
8 days since point of apogee on 21 March 2044 at 01:56 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 2 April 2044 at 02:16 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 377 160 km (234 356 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 395 km (228 289 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 27 March 2044 at 23:51 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 9 April 2044 at 20:15 in ♍ Virgo.
8 days since the last southern standstill on 21 March 2044 at 10:24 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.641° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.596° at the point of next northern standstill on 3 April 2044 at 22:19 in ♊ Gemini.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces 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