New
Moon ♐ Sagittarius
New Moon is the lunar phase on . Surface of the Moon disc is not illuminated. The 1 day young Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 24 November 2068 at 21:42 UTC.
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Moon rises at sunrise and sets at sunset. It's part facing the Earth is completely in shadow.
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♐ Sagittarius later.
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1807" and ∠1944".
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2068 after 14 days on 8 December 2068 at 23:42.
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.
At 21:42 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 852 of Meeus index or 1805 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 2 minutes. It is 2 hours and 10 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the 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 3 hours and 18 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 45 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly is ∠241.5°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠279.4°.
4 days after point of apogee on 19 November 2068 at 19:10 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 5 December 2068 at 19:40 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 396 760 km (246 535 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 315 km (227 618 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♏ Scorpio at 01:37 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 12 days later on 7 December 2068 at 05:58 in ♉ Taurus.
At 01:37 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
12 days since the previous standstill on 11 November 2068 at 15:07 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.651°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-20.658° at the point of next southern standstill on 26 November 2068 at 02:57 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.