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 9 December 2083 at 06:25 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 ∠21° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2083 after 14 days on 24 December 2083 at 03:52.
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 ∠1973" and ∠1948".
At 06:25 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 1038 of Meeus index or lunation 1991 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 52 minutes. It is 44 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 1 hour and 52 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 17 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠359.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠15°.
Moon is at perigee at 07:26 about 13 days since last apogee on 25 November 2083 at 20:43 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next apogee on 22 December 2083 at 20:30 in ♊ Gemini.
This perigee Moon is 356 689 km (221 636 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest perigee of 2083. It is 5 819 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 264 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
10 days after descending node on 29 November 2083 at 06:19 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 12 December 2083 at 02:09 in ♑ Capricorn.
At 13:02 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-26.302°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2083. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠26.297° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 23 December 2083 at 04:56.
24 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn 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