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 21 April 2088 at 10:25 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 first ∠3° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2088 after 14 days on 5 May 2088 at 16:25.
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 ∠1945" and ∠1908".
At 10:25 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 1092 of Meeus index or lunation 2045 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 24 minutes. It is 1 hour and 19 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 4 hours and 20 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 49 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠331.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠348.3°.
10 days since point of apogee on 11 April 2088 at 05:21 in ♐ Sagittarius 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 23 April 2088 at 04:05 in ♉ Taurus.
The Moon is 368 543 km (229 002 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 490 km (224 619 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♈ Aries at 17:47 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 4 May 2088 at 21:55 in ♏ Scorpio.
10 days since the last southern standstill on 11 April 2088 at 07:55 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.390° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.385° at the point of next northern standstill on 24 April 2088 at 17:34 in ♊ Gemini.
13 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