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 12 September 2072 at 09:07 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 ∠22° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2072 after 14 days on 27 September 2072 at 08:43.
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 ∠1971" and ∠1907".
At 09:07 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 899 of Meeus index or lunation 1852 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 48 minutes. It is 1 hour and 38 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 3 hours and 56 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 13 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠5.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠21.6°.
Moon is at perigee at 01:13 about 14 days since last apogee on 29 August 2072 at 00:37 in ♓ Pisces 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 25 September 2072 at 03:10 in ♓ Pisces.
This perigee Moon is 357 388 km (222 071 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 120 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 12 968 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
1 day after ascending node on 11 September 2072 at 16:07 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 25 September 2072 at 05:16 in ♓ Pisces.
5 days since the last northern standstill on 7 September 2072 at 06:46 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.564° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.581° at the point of next southern standstill on 19 September 2072 at 20:57 in ♐ Sagittarius.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo 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