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 6 December 2056 at 22:31 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 ∠24° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2056 after 14 days on 22 December 2056 at 01:34.
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 ∠1964" and ∠1948".
At 22:31 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 704 of Meeus index or lunation 1657 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 18 minutes. It is 1 hour and 3 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 26 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 43 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠9.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠26.4°.
1 day since point of perigee on 6 December 2056 at 09:40 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 19 December 2056 at 02:50 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 364 910 km (226 745 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 059 km (252 313 mi).
11 days after ascending node on 25 November 2056 at 19:20 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 8 December 2056 at 17:42 in ♑ Capricorn.
11 days since the last northern standstill on 25 November 2056 at 17:50 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.815° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-22.839° at the point of next southern standstill on 8 December 2056 at 17:13 in ♑ Capricorn.
11 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first 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