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

New Moon in Cancer

New Moon on . 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 17 June 2091 at 02:41 UTC.

Moonrise and moonset

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

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 ∠1° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.

Buck Moon after 13 days

Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2091 after 13 days on 1 July 2091 at 01:54.

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 ∠1828" and ∠1888".

New lunation 1131 / 2084

At 02:41 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 1131 of Meeus index or lunation 2084 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.48 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 35 minutes. It is 1 hour and 29 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 1 hour and 9 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠245.7°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠245.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠280.5°.

Moon after apogee

5 days since point of apogee on 11 June 2091 at 19:05 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 27 June 2091 at 11:38 in ♏ Scorpio.

Distance to Moon 392 028 km

The Moon is 392 028 km (243 595 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 857 km (227 954 mi).

Moon before ascending node

9 days after descending node on 7 June 2091 at 23:53 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 22 June 2091 at 07:10 in ♍ Virgo.

Moon at northern standstill

At 21:16 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠18.975°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-18.969° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 30 June 2091 at 20:26.

Draconic month

22 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final 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