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 2 September 2054 at 01:18 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 first ∠1° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2054 after 15 days on 17 September 2054 at 01:41.
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 ∠1973" and ∠1902".
At 17:48 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 675 of Meeus index or lunation 1628 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 30 minutes. It is 1 hour and 1 minute 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 14 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 55 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
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 ∠7.4°.
Moon is at perigee at 14:49 about 14 days since last apogee on 18 August 2054 at 10:18 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next apogee on 14 September 2054 at 13:46 in ♒ Aquarius.
This perigee Moon is 357 587 km (222 194 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 921 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 12 769 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon is in ascending node in ♌ Leo at 07:18 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 14 September 2054 at 21:07 in ♒ Aquarius.
3 days since the last northern standstill on 28 August 2054 at 21:36 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.122° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.139° at the point of next southern standstill on 10 September 2054 at 15:24 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 07:18 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
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