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 26 August 2098 at 15:52 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 first ∠2° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2098 after 15 days on 10 September 2098 at 17:33.
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 ∠1970" and ∠1899".
At 15:53 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 1220 of Meeus index or lunation 2173 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 24 minutes. It is 2 hours and 8 minutes shorter 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 4 hours and 20 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 49 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠10.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠26.9°.
Moon is at perigee at 01:27 about 14 days since last apogee on 11 August 2098 at 14:55 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 7 September 2098 at 19:51 in ♒ Aquarius.
This perigee Moon is 357 798 km (222 325 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 710 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 12 558 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
9 days after ascending node on 16 August 2098 at 17:55 in ♈ Aries 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 29 August 2098 at 10:54 in ♎ Libra.
3 days since the last northern standstill on 22 August 2098 at 13:44 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.393° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.462° at the point of next southern standstill on 4 September 2098 at 08:51 in ♑ Capricorn.
9 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