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 24 July 2074 at 03:07 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 ∠6° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2074 after 13 days on 7 August 2074 at 02:06.
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 ∠1834" and ∠1889".
At 03:07 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 922 of Meeus index or lunation 1875 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 52 minutes. It is 1 hour and 23 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 52 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 17 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠250.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠286°.
5 days since point of apogee on 18 July 2074 at 12:55 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 3 August 2074 at 03:09 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is 390 911 km (242 901 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 536 km (228 376 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♌ Leo at 05:30 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next descending node later on 6 August 2074 at 05:19 in ♒ Aquarius.
1 day since the last northern standstill on 22 July 2074 at 12:38 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.003° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-21.001° at the point of next southern standstill on 4 August 2074 at 17:04 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 05:30 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.
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