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 1 June 2087 at 01:38 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 ∠17° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2087 after 14 days on 16 June 2087 at 06:58.
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 ∠1953" and ∠1892".
At 01:38 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 1081 of Meeus index or lunation 2034 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 52 minutes. It is 57 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 4 hours and 52 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 17 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠19° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠37.8°.
1 day since point of perigee on 30 May 2087 at 22:29 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 12 June 2087 at 06:07 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 367 061 km (228 081 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 422 km (251 918 mi).
1 day after descending node on 31 May 2087 at 00:23 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 13 June 2087 at 18:16 in ♏ Scorpio.
At 14:09 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠20.809°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-20.814° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 15 June 2087 at 17:46.
15 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio 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