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 7 October 2086 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 ∠12° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2086 after 14 days on 22 October 2086 at 09:56.
There is extremely high New Moon ocean tide on this date. Combined Sun and Moon gravitational tidal force working on Earth is heavy, because of the Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment and the near perigee.
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1920".
At 17:56 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 1073 of Meeus index or lunation 2026 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 57 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2086. It is 3 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 13 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 50 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠181.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠206.3°.
Moon is at apogee at 14:11 about 14 days since last perigee on 23 September 2086 at 10:35 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 14 days until point of next perigee on 21 October 2086 at 22:00 in ♈ Aries.
This apogee Moon is 406 627 km (252 666 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest apogee of 2086. It is 1 219 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 82 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
10 days after descending node on 27 September 2086 at 11:17 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 11 October 2086 at 22:52 in ♏ Scorpio.
9 days since the last northern standstill on 28 September 2086 at 08:31 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.839° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-21.722° at the point of next southern standstill on 13 October 2086 at 01:01 in ♐ Sagittarius.
22 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius 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