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 2 August 2046 at 10:25 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 ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2046 after 14 days on 16 August 2046 at 14:50.
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 ∠1940" and ∠1891".
At 10:25 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 576 of Meeus index or lunation 1529 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 1 minute. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2046. It is 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 4 hours and 44 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 25 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠328° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠345.8°.
10 days since point of apogee on 23 July 2046 at 10:37 in ♈ Aries 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 4 August 2046 at 09:16 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 369 459 km (229 571 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 170 km (225 042 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♌ Leo at 00:47 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 15 August 2046 at 00:43 in ♒ Aquarius.
3 days since the last northern standstill on 29 July 2046 at 22:44 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.730° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.723° at the point of next southern standstill on 11 August 2046 at 15:06 in ♐ Sagittarius.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn 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