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 24 May 2066 at 03:38 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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♊ Gemini later.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2066 after 15 days on 8 June 2066 at 02:31.
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 ∠1781" and ∠1895".
At 12:29 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 820 of Meeus index or lunation 1773 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 9 minutes. It is 28 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 2 hours and 25 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 38 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠132.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠160.1°.
12 days since point of perigee on 11 May 2066 at 01:15 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 26 May 2066 at 06:49 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 402 518 km (250 113 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 227 km (252 418 mi).
10 days after ascending node on 13 May 2066 at 03:46 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 27 May 2066 at 04:17 in ♋ Cancer.
11 days since the last southern standstill on 11 May 2066 at 18:51 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.755° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠24.714° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 May 2066 at 11:45 in ♊ Gemini.
10 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn 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