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 27 January 2074 at 06:37 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 ∠11° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2074 after 15 days on 11 February 2074 at 21:05.
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 ∠1865" and ∠1948".
At 06:37 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 916 of Meeus index or lunation 1869 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 23 minutes. It is 57 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 2 hours and 39 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 24 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠72.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠110°.
5 days since point of perigee on 21 January 2074 at 13:42 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 3 February 2074 at 14:44 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 384 386 km (238 846 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 447 km (251 312 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♒ Aquarius at 14:36 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 11 February 2074 at 01:16 in ♌ Leo.
2 days since the last southern standstill on 25 January 2074 at 06:55 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.239° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.239° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 February 2074 at 15:47 in ♋ Cancer.
12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last 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