New
Moon ♊ Gemini
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 ♊ Gemini.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 10 June 2002 at 23:47 UTC.
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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 in ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1836" and ∠1890".
Strawberry Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2002 after 14 days on 24 June 2002 at 21:42.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 18 June 2002 at 00:29
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 24 June 2002 at 21:42
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 2 July 2002 at 17:19
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 10 July 2002 at 10:26
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 30 / 983
At 23:47 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 30 of Meeus index or 983 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.44 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 40 minutes. It is 1 hour and 51 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 2 hours and 5 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 5 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠268.1°
The true anomaly is ∠268.1°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠300.4°.
Moon after apogee
5 days after point of apogee on 4 June 2002 at 12:58 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 June 2002 at 07:24 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 390 302 km
The Moon is 390 302 km (242 522 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 308 km (229 477 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♊ Gemini at 20:00 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 23 June 2002 at 18:39 in ♐ Sagittarius.
New draconic month
At 20:00 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
12 days since the previous standstill on 29 May 2002 at 02:39 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.056°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.058° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 June 2002 at 14:17 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.
