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 11 January 2089 at 20:17 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 ∠0° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2089 after 13 days on 26 January 2089 at 11:25.
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 ∠1770" and ∠1951".
At 20:17 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 1101 of Meeus index or lunation 2054 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 58 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2089. It is 1 hour and 50 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 14 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 49 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠185.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠211.9°.
1 day since point of apogee on 11 January 2089 at 04:23 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 25 January 2089 at 19:36 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 404 840 km (251 556 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 13 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 298 km (222 015 mi).
7 days after ascending node on 4 January 2089 at 12:45 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 19 January 2089 at 04:30 in ♈ Aries.
3 days since the last southern standstill on 9 January 2089 at 11:54 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.913° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.817° at the point of next northern standstill on 23 January 2089 at 16:28 in ♊ Gemini.
7 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