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 13 December 2069 at 17:38 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 first ∠2° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2069 after 13 days on 28 December 2069 at 00:50.
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 ∠1794" and ∠1950".
At 17:38 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 865 of Meeus index or lunation 1818 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 45 minutes. It is 2 hours and 15 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 1 minute longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 2 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠211.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠244.8°.
3 days since point of apogee on 10 December 2069 at 12:50 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 17 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 31 December 2069 at 15:07 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 399 643 km (248 327 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 17 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 370 337 km (230 117 mi).
4 days after ascending node on 9 December 2069 at 16:16 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 23 December 2069 at 17:14 in ♈ Aries.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 13 December 2069 at 16:54 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.339° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.319° at the point of next northern standstill on 27 December 2069 at 01:12 in ♊ Gemini.
4 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra 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