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 30 December 2062 at 16:57 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 ∠19° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2063 after 14 days on 14 January 2063 at 19:11.
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 ∠1773" and ∠1951".
At 16:57 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 779 of Meeus index or lunation 1732 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 26 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2062. It is 11 minutes longer 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 42 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 21 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠154.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠179.8°.
5 days since point of perigee on 26 December 2062 at 08:56 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 2 January 2063 at 10:03 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 404 346 km (251 249 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 278 km (252 449 mi).
9 days after descending node on 21 December 2062 at 21:32 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 5 January 2063 at 05:33 in ♓ Pisces.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 29 December 2062 at 18:12 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.306° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.364° at the point of next northern standstill on 13 January 2063 at 00:22 in ♋ Cancer.
22 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces 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