New
Moon ♌ Leo
New Moon is the lunar phase on . Surface of the Moon disc is not illuminated. The 1 day young Moon is in ♌ Leo.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 9 August 2048 at 17:59 UTC.
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Moon rises at sunrise and sets at sunset. It's part facing the Earth is completely in shadow.
Moon is passing about ∠15° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1810" and ∠1893".
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2048 after 14 days on 23 August 2048 at 18:07.
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.
At 17:59 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 601 of Meeus index or 1554 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 26 minutes. It is 1 hour and 5 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the 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 18 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 51 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly is ∠240.4°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠276°.
4 days after point of apogee on 4 August 2048 at 17:05 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 20 August 2048 at 12:34 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 396 102 km (246 126 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 147 km (227 513 mi).
3 days after descending node on 5 August 2048 at 13:07 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 19 August 2048 at 04:55 in ♐ Sagittarius.
17 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
4 days since the previous standstill on 4 August 2048 at 20:01 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.656°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.557° at the point of next southern standstill on 18 August 2048 at 16:40 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.