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 21 October 2063 at 18:46 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 ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2063 after 15 days on 6 November 2063 at 05:22.
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 ∠1943" and ∠1928".
At 18:46 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 789 of Meeus index or lunation 1742 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 23 minutes. It is 2 hours and 31 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 21 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 48 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠31.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠55.4°.
1 day since point of perigee on 19 October 2063 at 20:10 in ♍ Virgo 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 31 October 2063 at 16:27 in ♓ Pisces.
The Moon is 368 957 km (229 259 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 751 km (251 501 mi).
3 days after descending node on 18 October 2063 at 00:18 in ♍ Virgo 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 31 October 2063 at 07:08 in ♓ Pisces.
8 days since the last northern standstill on 13 October 2063 at 04:27 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.062° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.978° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 October 2063 at 21:16 in ♐ Sagittarius.
17 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