New Moon on . The illuminated surface of the Moon is 0%. Lunar cycle is less than 1 day young.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 21 April 2069 at 09:58 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 first ∠3° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2069 after 14 days on 6 May 2069 at 09:11.
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 ∠1972" and ∠1909".
At 09:58 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 857 of Meeus index or lunation 1810 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 7 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2069. It is 1 minute 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 4 hours and 37 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 32 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠4.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠21°.
Moon is at perigee at 02:57 about 14 days since last apogee on 7 April 2069 at 02:44 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 4 May 2069 at 05:38 in ♎ Libra.
This perigee Moon is 357 266 km (221 995 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 242 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 13 090 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
12 days after ascending node on 8 April 2069 at 21:44 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 22 April 2069 at 04:46 in ♉ Taurus.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 11 April 2069 at 22:06 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.933° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.914° at the point of next northern standstill on 24 April 2069 at 15:22 in ♊ Gemini.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio 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