New
Moon* ♉ Taurus
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 ♉ Taurus.
* The exact date and time of this New Moon phase is on 19 May 2004 at 04:52 UTC.
Moon phases for next 7 days
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Sunday Sun
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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 ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing about ∠20° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1782" and ∠1896".
Strawberry Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2004 after 15 days on 3 June 2004 at 04:20.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 19 May 2004 at 04:52
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 27 May 2004 at 07:57
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 3 June 2004 at 04:20
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 9 June 2004 at 20:02
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 53 / 1006
At 13:21 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 53 of Meeus index or 1006 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.65 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 31 minutes. It is 4 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 47 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 16 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠129.7°
The true anomaly is ∠129.7°. At the beginning of the next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠158.3°.
Moon before perigee
12 days after point of perigee on 6 May 2004 at 04:29 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 21 May 2004 at 12:02 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 402 123 km
The Moon is 402 123 km (249 868 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 262 km (252 440 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 17 May 2004 at 18:17 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 13 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 1 June 2004 at 01:20 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
10 days since the previous standstill on 8 May 2004 at 08:08 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.623°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.595° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 May 2004 at 10:05 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.
