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 2 January 2098 at 14:32 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 ∠11° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2098 after 14 days on 17 January 2098 at 10:36.
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 ∠1769" and ∠1951".
At 14:32 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 1212 of Meeus index or lunation 2165 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 22 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2098. It is 1 hour and 14 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 38 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 25 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠172.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠197°.
13 days since point of perigee on 19 December 2097 at 17:43 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 3 January 2098 at 11:59 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 405 179 km (251 767 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 688 km (252 704 mi).
5 days after descending node on 27 December 2097 at 16:48 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 11 January 2098 at 08:24 in ♈ Aries.
1 day since the last southern standstill on 1 January 2098 at 23:06 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.839° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.895° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 January 2098 at 22:37 in ♊ Gemini.
18 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus 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