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 20 May 2050 at 20:51 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 ∠9° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2050 after 14 days on 5 June 2050 at 09:51.
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 ∠1862" and ∠1895".
At 20:51 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 623 of Meeus index or lunation 1576 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 31 minutes. It is 1 hour and 24 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 1 hour and 13 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 56 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠69.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠104.1°.
5 days since point of perigee on 15 May 2050 at 15:45 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 28 May 2050 at 10:12 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 384 958 km (239 202 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 241 km (251 184 mi).
1 day after descending node on 20 May 2050 at 04:46 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 3 June 2050 at 14:47 in ♏ Scorpio.
12 days since the last southern standstill on 9 May 2050 at 09:11 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.489° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠20.496° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 May 2050 at 07:13 in ♊ Gemini.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio 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