Waxing
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
New Moon
New Moon is the lunar phase on . Surface of the Moon disc is not illuminated. The 1 day young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 21 June 2001 at 11:58 UTC.
Moon phases for next 7 days
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Moon phase and lunation details
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises at sunrise and sets at sunset. It's part facing the Earth is completely in shadow.
Moon is entering ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1932" and ∠1888".
Buck Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2001 after 14 days on 5 July 2001 at 15:04.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 28 June 2001 at 03:20
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 5 July 2001 at 15:04
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 13 July 2001 at 18:45
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 20 July 2001 at 19:44
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.
New lunation 18 / 971
At 11:58 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 18 of Meeus index or 971 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.32 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 47 minutes. It is 36 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the 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 4 hours and 57 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 12 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠324.1°
The true anomaly is ∠324.1°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠342.5°.
Moon before apogee
9 days after point of apogee on 11 June 2001 at 19:48 in ♒ Aquarius. 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 23 June 2001 at 17:14 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 370 953 km
The Moon is 370 953 km (230 500 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 135 km (225 642 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♊ Gemini at 22:11 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 5 July 2001 at 00:48 in ♑ Capricorn.
New draconic month
At 22:11 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
13 days since the previous standstill on 8 June 2001 at 05:02 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.414°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠23.418° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 June 2001 at 07:47 in ♋ Cancer.
Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
