New Moon on . The illuminated surface of the Moon is 1%. Lunar cycle is 1 day young.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 14 January 2059 at 03:57 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 ∠14° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2059 after 15 days on 28 January 2059 at 15:11.
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 ∠1948" and ∠1951".
At 16:12 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 729 of Meeus index or lunation 1682 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 45 minutes. It is 1 hour and 15 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
The length of the current synodic month is 59 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 10 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠321.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠341.1°.
10 days since point of apogee on 3 January 2059 at 02:24 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 January 2059 at 06:49 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 367 996 km (228 662 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 945 km (223 038 mi).
2 days after descending node on 10 January 2059 at 18:48 in ♏ Scorpio 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 23 January 2059 at 08:38 in ♊ Gemini.
At 04:35 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-25.989°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2059. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠26.006° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 26 January 2059 at 04:36.
17 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini 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