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 18 March 2064 at 01:45 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 ∠21° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2064 after 15 days on 1 April 2064 at 17:40.
There is extremely high New Moon ocean tide on this date. Combined Sun and Moon gravitational tidal force working on Earth is heavy, because of the Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment and the near perigee.
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1928".
At 07:03 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 793 of Meeus index or lunation 1746 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 42 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2064. It is 1 hour and 25 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 5 hours and 58 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 5 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠156.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠181.6°.
Moon is at apogee at 21:10 about 14 days since last perigee on 3 March 2064 at 17:31 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next perigee on 1 April 2064 at 05:29 in ♎ Libra.
This apogee Moon is 406 581 km (252 638 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest apogee of 2064. It is 1 173 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 128 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
2 days after ascending node on 15 March 2064 at 05:39 in ♒ Aquarius 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 29 March 2064 at 11:52 in ♌ Leo.
7 days since the last southern standstill on 10 March 2064 at 08:07 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.823° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.727° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 March 2064 at 03:21 in ♊ Gemini.
2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius 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