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 28 May 2052 at 10:50 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 2052 after 14 days on 12 June 2052 at 10:27.
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 ∠1971" and ∠1893".
At 10:50 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 648 of Meeus index or lunation 1601 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 1 minute. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2052. It is 41 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 5 hours and 44 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 25 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠7.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠23.2°.
Moon is at perigee at 00:39 about 14 days since last apogee on 13 May 2052 at 20:41 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 10 June 2052 at 00:46 in ♏ Scorpio.
This perigee Moon is 357 494 km (222 136 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 014 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 12 862 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
3 days after descending node on 24 May 2052 at 19:07 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 6 June 2052 at 13:15 in ♎ Libra.
11 days since the last southern standstill on 16 May 2052 at 13:00 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.443° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠18.475° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 May 2052 at 16:35 in ♊ Gemini.
18 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra 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