New Moon on . The illuminated surface of the Moon is 0%. Lunar cycle is 1 day young.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 11 May 2078 at 17:56 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 ∠18° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2078 after 15 days on 26 May 2078 at 20:23.
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 ∠1969" and ∠1899".
At 17:56 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 969 of Meeus index or lunation 1922 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 53 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2078. It is 26 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 4 hours and 51 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 18 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠11.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠29°.
Moon is at perigee at 01:13 about 14 days since last apogee on 26 April 2078 at 10:18 in ♎ Libra 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 23 May 2078 at 17:11 in ♎ Libra.
This perigee Moon is 358 066 km (222 492 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 442 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 12 290 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon is in ascending node in ♉ Taurus at 14:45 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 25 May 2078 at 11:12 in ♏ Scorpio.
9 days since the last southern standstill on 2 May 2078 at 05:32 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.108° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.103° at the point of next northern standstill on 14 May 2078 at 21:51 in ♋ Cancer.
At 14:45 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