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 28 December 2092 at 16:10 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 about ∠5° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2093 after 15 days on 12 January 2093 at 17:43.
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 ∠1972" and ∠1951".
At 16:10 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 1150 of Meeus index or lunation 2103 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 12 minutes. It is 31 minutes shorter 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 1 hour and 32 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 37 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠6.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠22.9°.
Moon is at perigee at 07:30 about 14 days since last apogee on 14 December 2092 at 04:05 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 10 January 2093 at 05:43 in ♊ Gemini.
This perigee Moon is 356 969 km (221 810 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 539 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 13 387 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
11 days after ascending node on 17 December 2092 at 11:56 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 30 December 2092 at 11:22 in ♒ Aquarius.
At 21:41 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-20.841°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2092. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠20.841° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 11 January 2093 at 17:53.
11 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo 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