New Moon on . The illuminated surface of the Moon is 1%. Lunar cycle is 1 day young.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 3 January 2079 at 06:50 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 first ∠3° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2079 after 14 days on 17 January 2079 at 11:06.
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 ∠1787" and ∠1951".
At 12:08 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 976 of Meeus index or lunation 1929 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 42 minutes. It is 1 hour and 57 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 5 hours and 58 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 5 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠196.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠225.6°.
3 days since point of apogee on 30 December 2078 at 02:17 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 January 2079 at 03:12 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 401 202 km (249 295 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 679 km (225 980 mi).
4 days after descending node on 28 December 2078 at 21:50 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 11 January 2079 at 23:02 in ♉ Taurus.
At 17:40 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-27.521°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2079. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠27.561° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 16 January 2079 at 00:05.
17 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus 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