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 22 January 2080 at 01:55 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 ∠7° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2080 after 14 days on 5 February 2080 at 12:21.
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 ∠1778" and ∠1949".
At 01:55 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 990 of Meeus index or lunation 1943 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 16 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2080. It is 2 hours and 21 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 32 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 31 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠199.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠228.8°.
2 days since point of apogee on 19 January 2080 at 22:45 in ♑ Capricorn 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 4 February 2080 at 07:30 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 403 216 km (250 547 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 104 km (223 137 mi).
9 days after descending node on 13 January 2080 at 09:00 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 28 January 2080 at 00:20 in ♈ Aries.
2 days since the last southern standstill on 19 January 2080 at 15:20 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.251° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.345° at the point of next northern standstill on 2 February 2080 at 14:34 in ♊ Gemini.
21 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries 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