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 24 May 2047 at 20:27 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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♊ Gemini later.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2047 after 14 days on 8 June 2047 at 02:05.
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 ∠1779" and ∠1894".
At 20:27 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 586 of Meeus index or lunation 1539 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 8 minutes. It is 1 hour and 55 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 1 hour and 24 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 39 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠210.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠240°.
2 days since point of apogee on 21 May 2047 at 20:02 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 June 2047 at 09:14 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 402 928 km (250 368 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 058 km (224 351 mi).
10 days after ascending node on 13 May 2047 at 18:17 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 28 May 2047 at 08:07 in ♋ Cancer.
12 days since the last southern standstill on 11 May 2047 at 19:59 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.371° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠25.322° at the point of next northern standstill on 26 May 2047 at 04:23 in ♊ Gemini.
10 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn 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