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 16 June 2053 at 10:51 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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2053 after 14 days on 1 July 2053 at 02:01.
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 ∠1889".
At 10:51 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 661 of Meeus index or lunation 1614 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 6 hours and 35 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2053. It is 40 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 6 hours and 9 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length and it is the shortest synodic month length of 21st century.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠352.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠7.2°.
Moon is at perigee at 21:48 about 12 days since last apogee on 3 June 2053 at 22:38 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next apogee on 1 July 2053 at 02:40 in ♑ Capricorn.
This perigee Moon is 357 537 km (222 163 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 971 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 12 819 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
6 days after descending node on 9 June 2053 at 18:30 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 22 June 2053 at 05:29 in ♍ Virgo.
At 21:27 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠18.495°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-18.513° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 30 June 2053 at 12:07.
21 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo 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