New Moon
New MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

New Moon in Cancer

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 23 June 2047 at 10:36 UTC.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises at sunrise and sets at sunset. It's part facing the Earth is completely in shadow.

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon is entering ♋ Cancer

Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.

Buck Moon after 13 days

Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2047 after 13 days on 7 July 2047 at 10:33.

Spring tide

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.

Apparent angular diameter

Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1815" and ∠1888".

New lunation 587 / 1540

At 10:36 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 587 of Meeus index or lunation 1540 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.51 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 13 minutes. It is 1 hour and 46 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°).

Lunation length shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 31 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 38 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠240°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠240° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠274.9°.

Moon after apogee

5 days since point of apogee on 18 June 2047 at 10:22 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 4 July 2047 at 04:56 in ♏ Scorpio.

Distance to Moon 394 979 km

The Moon is 394 979 km (245 429 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 988 km (227 414 mi).

Moon before descending node

13 days after ascending node on 10 June 2047 at 02:05 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 24 June 2047 at 13:16 in ♋ Cancer.

Moon after northern standstill

1 day since the last northern standstill on 22 June 2047 at 10:35 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.328° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.343° at the point of next southern standstill on 5 July 2047 at 15:10 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy

The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

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