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 29 May 2060 at 18:23 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 ∠5° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2060 after 15 days on 14 June 2060 at 03:37.
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 ∠1945" and ∠1893".
At 18:23 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 747 of Meeus index or lunation 1700 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 35 minutes. It is 1 hour and 17 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 4 hours and 10 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠31.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠54.1°.
1 day since point of perigee on 27 May 2060 at 20:38 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 8 June 2060 at 19:26 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 368 592 km (229 032 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 799 km (251 530 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 27 May 2060 at 15:43 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 10 June 2060 at 08:48 in ♏ Scorpio.
10 days since the last southern standstill on 18 May 2060 at 20:56 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.700° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.668° at the point of next northern standstill on 31 May 2060 at 15:36 in ♊ Gemini.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus 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