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 29 June 2098 at 02:06 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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2098 after 14 days on 13 July 2098 at 10:35.
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 ∠1947" and ∠1887".
At 18:23 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 1217 of Meeus index or lunation 2170 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 43 minutes. It is 58 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 5 hours and 1 minute shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 8 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠320.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠339.4°.
10 days since point of apogee on 18 June 2098 at 01:07 in ♒ Aquarius 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 30 June 2098 at 07:43 in ♋ Cancer.
The Moon is 368 068 km (228 707 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 588 km (223 438 mi).
4 days after ascending node on 23 June 2098 at 14:19 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 6 July 2098 at 02:56 in ♎ Libra.
At 19:01 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠28.163°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-28.167° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 11 July 2098 at 22:01.
4 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries 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
