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 31 August 2046 at 18:25 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 first ∠4° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2046 after 14 days on 15 September 2046 at 06:39.
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 ∠1962" and ∠1901".
At 18:25 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 577 of Meeus index or lunation 1530 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 1 minute. It is 52 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 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 ∠345.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠1.2°.
11 days since point of apogee on 20 August 2046 at 01:53 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 1 September 2046 at 14:28 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 365 362 km (227 025 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 321 km (222 650 mi).
2 days after descending node on 29 August 2046 at 10:45 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 11 September 2046 at 05:06 in ♒ Aquarius.
5 days since the last northern standstill on 26 August 2046 at 07:50 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.666° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.607° at the point of next southern standstill on 7 September 2046 at 20:58 in ♐ Sagittarius.
16 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius 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