New Moon on . The illuminated surface of the Moon is 1%. Lunar cycle is 1 day young.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 18 November 2093 at 19:57 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 ∠7° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2093 after 13 days on 2 December 2093 at 22:24.
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 ∠1927" and ∠1942".
At 19:58 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 1161 of Meeus index or lunation 2114 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 50 minutes. It is 32 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 54 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 15 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠314.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠335.6°.
9 days since point of apogee on 9 November 2093 at 23:18 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 21 November 2093 at 17:56 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 372 028 km (231 167 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 650 km (227 204 mi).
10 days after ascending node on 8 November 2093 at 15:46 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 22 November 2093 at 07:46 in ♑ Capricorn.
11 days since the last northern standstill on 8 November 2093 at 02:08 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.330° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-22.406° at the point of next southern standstill on 21 November 2093 at 22:15 in ♑ Capricorn.
10 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer 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