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 24 August 2082 at 01:18 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 ∠23° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2082 after 14 days on 7 September 2082 at 04:30.
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 ∠1918" and ∠1898".
At 15:54 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 1021 of Meeus index or lunation 1974 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 24 minutes. It is 38 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 3 hours and 20 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 49 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠298.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠323.3°.
9 days since point of apogee on 14 August 2082 at 10:53 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 26 August 2082 at 07:48 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 373 635 km (232 166 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 291 km (225 739 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♌ Leo at 18:04 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 5 September 2082 at 17:31 in ♒ Aquarius.
4 days since the last northern standstill on 19 August 2082 at 03:43 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.949° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.941° at the point of next southern standstill on 31 August 2082 at 22:20 in ♐ Sagittarius.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius 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