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 16 January 2094 at 19:05 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 ∠23° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2094 after 15 days on 31 January 2094 at 12:36.
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 ∠1968" and ∠1950".
At 19:05 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 1163 of Meeus index or lunation 2116 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 38 minutes. It is 37 minutes longer 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 2 hours and 6 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 3 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠352.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠7.9°.
12 days since point of apogee on 4 January 2094 at 09:27 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 17 January 2094 at 05:33 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 364 145 km (226 269 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 139 km (221 916 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♑ Capricorn at 02:40 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 29 January 2094 at 09:03 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 15 January 2094 at 19:36 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.474° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.474° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 January 2094 at 23:58 in ♋ Cancer.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final 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