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 6 January 2076 at 10:14 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 ∠17° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2076 after 14 days on 21 January 2076 at 04:39.
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 ∠1951".
At 10:14 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 940 of Meeus index or lunation 1893 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 47 minutes. It is 24 minutes longer 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 1 hour and 57 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 12 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠354° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠9.4°.
Moon is at perigee at 18:38 about 12 days since last apogee on 24 December 2075 at 19:52 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next apogee on 20 January 2076 at 21:24 in ♋ Cancer.
This perigee Moon is 356 990 km (221 823 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 518 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 13 366 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
1 day after descending node on 5 January 2076 at 17:45 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 19 January 2076 at 00:50 in ♋ Cancer.
At 04:17 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-23.509°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2076. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠23.505° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 19 January 2076 at 14:14.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the second to the final 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