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 19 May 2004 at 04:52 UTC.
The moon rises at sunrise and sets at sunset. It's part facing the Earth is completely in shadow.
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Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2004 after 14 days on 3 June 2004 at 04:20.
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.
Lunar disc is not visible from Earth. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1774" and ∠1896".
At 04:52 on this date the Moon completes the old and enters a new synodic month with lunation 54 of Meeus index or lunation 1007 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 35 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2004. It is 38 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°).
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 51 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 12 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit is ∠158.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠181.6°.
13 days since 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 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 21 May 2004 at 12:02 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 404 142 km (251 122 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 262 km (252 440 mi).
1 day after ascending node on 17 May 2004 at 18:17 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 1 June 2004 at 01:20 in ♏ Scorpio.
11 days since the last southern 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 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.595° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 May 2004 at 10:05 in ♋ Cancer.
1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.
The Moon is in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
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