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 4 September 2100 at 08:49 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 ∠14° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2100 after 13 days on 18 September 2100 at 11:32.
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 ∠1929" and ∠1903".
At 08:50 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 1245 of Meeus index or lunation 2198 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 13 minutes. It is 1 minute 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 3 hours and 31 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 38 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠320.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠340.4°.
9 days since point of apogee on 25 August 2100 at 23:00 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 September 2100 at 19:23 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 371 666 km (230 943 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 868 km (226 097 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♍ Virgo at 02:42 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 17 September 2100 at 01:56 in ♓ Pisces.
5 days since the last northern standstill on 29 August 2100 at 17:37 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.356° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.345° at the point of next southern standstill on 11 September 2100 at 14:42 in ♐ Sagittarius.
14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces 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