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 11 April 2051 at 01:59 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 ∠3° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♉ Taurus later.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2051 after 14 days on 26 April 2051 at 02:19.
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 ∠1968" and ∠1914".
At 01:59 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 634 of Meeus index or lunation 1587 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 30 minutes. It is 3 minutes longer 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 14 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 55 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠6.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠23.1°.
1 day since point of perigee on 10 April 2051 at 16:35 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 23 April 2051 at 15:59 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 364 135 km (226 263 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 100 km (252 339 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♈ Aries at 19:58 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 25 April 2051 at 19:39 in ♎ Libra.
8 days since the last southern standstill on 2 April 2051 at 15:13 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.184° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.160° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 April 2051 at 05:12 in ♊ Gemini.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last 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