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 5 January 2068 at 02:38 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 passing about ∠6° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2068 after 14 days on 19 January 2068 at 09:45.
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 ∠1930" and ∠1951".
At 14:05 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 840 of Meeus index or lunation 1793 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 33 minutes. It is 1 hour and 27 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 11 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 58 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠307.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠331.1°.
9 days since point of apogee on 25 December 2067 at 23:56 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 January 2068 at 20:29 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 371 424 km (230 792 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 414 km (224 572 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 2 January 2068 at 18:49 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 15 January 2068 at 11:57 in ♊ Gemini.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 3 January 2068 at 06:48 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.264° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.237° at the point of next northern standstill on 16 January 2068 at 02:15 in ♊ Gemini.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius 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