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 19 October 2047 at 03:28 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 ∠1° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2047 after 14 days on 2 November 2047 at 16:58.
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 ∠1969" and ∠1927".
At 03:28 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 591 of Meeus index or lunation 1544 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 31 minutes. It is 1 hour and 8 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 3 hours and 13 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 56 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠346.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠2.2°.
Moon is at perigee at 21:58 about 12 days since last apogee on 7 October 2047 at 08:53 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 3 November 2047 at 16:20 in ♉ Taurus.
This perigee Moon is 357 956 km (222 424 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 552 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 12 400 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
7 days after descending node on 11 October 2047 at 12:21 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 24 October 2047 at 02:50 in ♑ Capricorn.
9 days since the last northern standstill on 9 October 2047 at 18:12 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.802° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.711° at the point of next southern standstill on 22 October 2047 at 17:18 in ♐ Sagittarius.
22 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