New Moon
New MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

New Moon in Sagittarius

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 18 December 2093 at 07:47 UTC.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises at sunrise and sets at sunset. It's part facing the Earth is completely in shadow.

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon is entering ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

Wolf Moon after 14 days

Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2094 after 14 days on 1 January 2094 at 16:51.

Spring tide

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.

Apparent angular diameter

Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1952" and ∠1950".

New lunation 1162 / 2115

At 07:47 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 1162 of Meeus index or lunation 2115 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.47 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 18 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2093. It is 40 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°).

Lunation length shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 26 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 43 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠335.6°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠335.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠352.5°.

Moon before perigee

10 days since point of apogee on 7 December 2093 at 19:07 in ♌ Leo 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 19 December 2093 at 18:42 in ♑ Capricorn.

Distance to Moon 367 132 km

The Moon is 367 132 km (228 125 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 323 km (223 894 mi).

Moon before descending node

12 days after ascending node on 5 December 2093 at 20:16 in ♋ Cancer 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 19 December 2093 at 15:25 in ♑ Capricorn.

Moon before southern standstill

13 days since the last northern standstill on 5 December 2093 at 10:39 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.462° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-22.474° at the point of next southern standstill on 19 December 2093 at 08:08 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

12 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.

Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy

The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

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