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 13 December 2088 at 00:52 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 ∠3° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2088 after 14 days on 28 December 2088 at 00:57.
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 ∠1771" and ∠1949".
At 00:52 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 1100 of Meeus index or lunation 2053 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 26 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2088. It is 28 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 6 hours and 42 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 21 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠160.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠185.7°.
13 days since point of perigee on 29 November 2088 at 18:53 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 15 December 2088 at 03:25 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 404 702 km (251 470 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 541 km (252 613 mi).
5 days after ascending node on 8 December 2088 at 11:52 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 23 December 2088 at 02:43 in ♈ Aries.
At 04:28 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-18.960°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠18.933° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 27 December 2088 at 04:20.
5 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first 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