New Moon on . The illuminated surface of the Moon is 0%. Lunar cycle is 1 day young.
* The exact date and time of this phase is on at : .
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 ∠13° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Moon of after 1 day on at :.
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 ∠1792" and ∠1915".
At : on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation -953 of Meeus index or lunation from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is days, 1 hour and 1 minute. It is longer 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 equal to the mean synodic month length. It is %hours_to_shortest% and %minutes_to_shortest% longer than the 21st century's shortest and %hours_to_longest% and %minutes_to_longest% shorter than the 21st century's longest synodic months.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠0° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠0°.
43003 days since point of apogee on at : in &#; the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on at : in &#; .
The Moon is 399 982 km (248 537 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 0 km (0 mi).
43003 days after descending node on at : in &#; the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on at : in &#; .
43003 days since the last southern standstill on at : in &#; when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠° at the point of next northern standstill on at : in &#; .
43003 days since the beginning of this draconic month in &#; 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