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 20 May 2088 at 18:49 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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♊ Gemini later.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2088 after 14 days on 4 June 2088 at 08:08.
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 ∠1965" and ∠1896".
At 18:49 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 1093 of Meeus index or lunation 2046 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 5 minutes. It is 20 minutes 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 5 hours and 39 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 30 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠348.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠3.5°.
11 days since point of apogee on 8 May 2088 at 19:11 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 21 May 2088 at 11:25 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 364 832 km (226 696 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 066 km (222 492 mi).
1 day after descending node on 19 May 2088 at 04:20 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 1 June 2088 at 03:13 in ♏ Scorpio.
11 days since the last southern standstill on 8 May 2088 at 14:54 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.393° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠19.414° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 May 2088 at 03:13 in ♊ Gemini.
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